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5JAN2012

The gift of character

gift-of-character

Piggy backing on my previous post, below is a list of desired character traits I want to model for my family.

  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness
  • Generosity
  • Humility
  • Discipline
  • Courage
  • Strength
  • Faithfulness
  • Wit
  • Passion
  • Intelligence
  • Christian

The bar is set. And it is set high. It’s time to get tired.

Piggy backing on my previous post, below is a list of desired character traits I want to model for my family.

  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Kindness
  • Generosity
  • Humility
  • Discipline
  • Courage
  • Strength
  • Faithfulness
  • Wit
  • Passion
  • Intelligence
  • Christian

The bar is set. And it is set high. It’s time to get tired.

4JAN2012

Pursuing the invisible

pursuing-the-invisible

A big theme in my life is the pursuit of the invisible. In some ways, it is a concept that is woven in all of life.

Parenting is no different.

Being a Dad is learning as you go.  It’s an on-the-job-training environment that expands your limits, strengthens your character and gives you gray hair. But when it comes to the future — when it comes from guiding my boys into manhood …

I need to be the man I want my boys to become.

Dennis Prager has said  – as parents — we are not raising children. We are raising adults. That responsibility begins with me. Not in crafting traits in my boys, but modeling them.

A big theme in my life is the pursuit of the invisible. In some ways, it is a concept that is woven in all of life.

Parenting is no different.

Being a Dad is learning as you go.  It’s an on-the-job-training environment that expands your limits, strengthens your character and gives you gray hair. But when it comes to the future — when it comes from guiding my boys into manhood …

I need to be the man I want my boys to become.

Dennis Prager has said  – as parents — we are not raising children. We are raising adults. That responsibility begins with me. Not in crafting traits in my boys, but modeling them.

25DEC2011

Merry Christmas

24NOV2011

Thankful

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m thankful for friendship today. With my beautiful wife. With my lovely family. With my cherished and loyal friends. I’m thankful for all the little things we share. Especially the little things, actually. They are what make up our everydays and I love spending them together.

Thank God for each of you.

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m thankful for friendship today. With my beautiful wife. With my lovely family. With my cherished and loyal friends. I’m thankful for all the little things we share. Especially the little things, actually. They are what make up our everydays and I love spending them together.

Thank God for each of you.

4MAY2011

Everything I Never Knew I Always Wanted

moses

There are a lot of ways to describe fatherhood.

Fulfilling. Exhausting. Surprising. Wonderful. Exasperating. Diaper-riffic. The list of adjectives truly is limitless.  But on this eve of meeting my second child, I am most reflective of how humbling it has been be to embrace the sacred responsibility of caring for my son.

There are a lot of ways to describe fatherhood.

Fulfilling. Exhausting. Surprising. Wonderful. Exasperating. Diaper-riffic. The list of adjectives truly is limitless.  But on this eve of meeting my second child, I am most reflective of how humbling it has been be to embrace the sacred responsibility of caring for my son.

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