Startling Dad Fact.
If you spend one hour per week with your child from the time he or she is born, to the age 18, the total amount of time you will spend is 39 days. www.greatdads.org |
"Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh and to be motivated.
I read to understand things I've never been exposed to.
I read when I'm crabby, when I've just said monumentally dumb things to the people I love.
I read for strength to help me when I feel broken, discouraged, and afraid.
I read when I'm angry at the whole world.
I read when everything is going right.
I read to find hope.
I read because I'm made up not just of skin and bones, of sights, feelings, and a deep need for chocolate, but I'm also made up of words.
Words describe my thoughts and what's hidden in my heart.
Words are alive--when I've found a story that I love, I read it again and again, like playing a favorite song over and over.
Reading isn't passive--I enter the story with the characters, breathe their air, feel their frustrations, scream at them to stop when they're about to do something stupid, cry with them, laugh with them.
Reading for me, is spending time with a friend. A book is a friend. You can never have too many."
Gary Paulsen
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I am a biker-soldier, a prayer warrior, I am not a wimp. I am in place, praising my Lord, obeying His orders, and out on the road, building His Kingdom!
I am a biker-soldier, a prayer warrior, riding, Heaven-bound!
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Most boys and men share the perception that God is to be found in church, and that the rest of life is . . . well, just the rest of life. The tragedy of this is that the rest of life seems far more attractive to them, than church.
An Extract from The Way of the Wild Heart - John Eldridge
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Society and our churches
are more concerned with making Christian men into "Nice
Guys" than into "Good Men". Characteristics like honour,
strength, courage, leadership, sacrifice, compassion and
love all are compromised with passivity, emotional
indifference and avoidance of confrontation. This sabotages
men at home and at work.
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| GREAT WEBSITES FOR DAD'S |
Startling Dad Fact.
If you spend one hour per week with your child from the time he or she is born, to the age 18, the total amount of time you will spend is 39 days.
"Great Dads" is a resource website that all dads should read. Solid, sensible information that can dramatically improve the well being of the whole family and make the role of fathering, the most fulfilling calling on your life.
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Darn good reading.
The website Men of Integrity has an excellent list of books for men including "Why Men Hate Going to Church", "Understanding your Wife", "Sexual Idolatry", "Seven Promises of the Promise Keepers", and many other relevant titles. |
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