Day 7, the home stretch
Well I guess my week long semi bachelor life comes to an end sometime tomorrow. I am truly glad that my family is coming home.
As much as I enjoy time alone… I enjoy being a father and husband more. Sure it is filled with heartbreak and strife… but it is also filled with moments of pride and joy that can be experienced no other way. I know that I could never have come close to understanding the unconditional love God has for me, without first experiencing the unconditional love I have for my children. I know that I would have been less of a man without the anvil of accountability to my wife that shapes my life. And especially during this time of year, even through all the commercialization and perversion Christmas has experienced through the years, there is no better way to experience it than through the innocent eyes of your children.
I am thankful that God saw enough in me, to gift me with a loving wife and children to care for. And I pray that in these dark days I walk worthy of the trust He has placed in me.
My fervent prayer is when my children look back on me as their father that I will be remembered as a beacon of light who pointed the way to Jesus. That my shortcomings as a man and the mistakes I have made as a father will be proof that they too can be men and women of God instead of reasons why they shouldn’t.
If they get nothing else right in this world, I pray more than anything that they get their relationship with Jesus right. All that my life has been and all that God has offered me will mean nothing if I have failed in this. I pray that God uses me in mighty ways to reach others for Christ… and I pray that it began with those He gave me to raise.
No other success and no other failure would mean more to me than this.
Well I guess my week long semi bachelor life comes to an end sometime tomorrow. I am truly glad that my family is coming home.
As much as I enjoy time alone… I enjoy being a father and husband more. Sure it is filled with heartbreak and strife… but it is also filled with moments of pride and joy that can be experienced no other way. I know that I could never have come close to understanding the unconditional love God has for me, without first experiencing the unconditional love I have for my children. I know that I would have been less of a man without the anvil of accountability to my wife that shapes my life. And especially during this time of year, even through all the commercialization and perversion Christmas has experienced through the years, there is no better way to experience it than through the innocent eyes of your children.
I am thankful that God saw enough in me, to gift me with a loving wife and children to care for. And I pray that in these dark days I walk worthy of the trust He has placed in me.
My fervent prayer is when my children look back on me as their father that I will be remembered as a beacon of light who pointed the way to Jesus. That my shortcomings as a man and the mistakes I have made as a father will be proof that they too can be men and women of God instead of reasons why they shouldn’t.
If they get nothing else right in this world, I pray more than anything that they get their relationship with Jesus right. All that my life has been and all that God has offered me will mean nothing if I have failed in this. I pray that God uses me in mighty ways to reach others for Christ… and I pray that it began with those He gave me to raise.
No other success and no other failure would mean more to me than this.
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