It is only when I think of the grace extended to me that I begin to recognise just how crucial grace is for life. There are times when people do some things and they are well up for the lambasting. Their behaviour was wrong, their attitude stank out the place, they should have had the […]
Read More A Place for GraceThere is this thing some of us do to protect people. We don’t tell them everything. Now what is true is this – people don’t need to know everything. They don’t. It is not for them to know each and every aspect of everything we have ever done. That, however, is not what is really […]
Read More Things In The Dark Come Out In The LightOK a brief football reference, then I will move right on, honest. So, Wayne Rooney is the leading goalscorer for his club, Manchester United and his country. He has won every trophy there is to win in the game at club level and has scored crucial goals in the run up to that. Yet for […]
Read More Living Beyond OurselvesThere is something a little annoying about the focus on the individual. If human existence was just about the individual why on earth were we made as relational beings whose greatest expression is found in individuals getting together, working together, connecting together? Anyway, recently I was reflecting on the great experiences I have had at […]
Read More More Than A Group of IndividualsThere is a good friend of mine who is gifted with word pictures. I asked him a question about two people and he let fly again with a wonderful way of looking at their relationship. He said that one was the easel in which the other could paint masterpieces. Recognising the point made, I duly […]
Read More Easels and BrushesTomorrow is scheduled to see the last important football match of the season. It’s the Champions League final. After that there will be a few international matches here and there with some youth tournaments around, but to all intents and purposes those of us who enjoy feeding from the game of football will engage in […]
Read More Dryden on the FreeflowThe last time I gave an update on things was back in the beginning of April. That feels like a long time ago. It’s just two months, but that has been a packed two months. You may have gathered that the vast majority of that time on this blog has been dedicated to continuing and […]
Read More June Check Up: A Dryden UpdateIt should be apparent by this stage in the collection that the Psalms covers a wide range of human experience and emotion. It is not there to just be pretty in praising and saying how beautiful God is. Sometimes it’s raw and brutal. This Psalm is one of them. From the start we are aware […]
Read More Psalm 109 – Sort Them Out, GodWe were playing a board game. I wasn’t doing so well, but being the peace loving and peace making sort that I am, I merely proclaimed that I would vanquish them all anyway because God was on my side. Obviously in the light of such bold proclamations I finished up in last place. The Bible […]
Read More Psalm 108 – Ways to Win the WarfareThere are few physical experiences more satisfying than that of the sensations received on the completion of a great meal. My upbringing instilled a great respect for engaging with the plate of food set before us and finishing every part of the meal. Leftovers were rare. That was usually because the meal that was prepared […]
Read More December Thanks #23: Food
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