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We usually think of books belonging in a bookshelf.
Here are some books for your backyard.
The “Man Up” campaign sounds great, but I was most interested to read the opening statistics about fathers. If you missed them, start the video over and read them again.
I appreciate what this group is doing for the horrible situation in Africa, but at the same time I have to ask, “What about all the fatherless here in the United States?”
I work with people day-in and day-out who grew up without fathers, and I see the truth of these statistics.
Just being there for your kids is accomplishing more for this world than you can ever imagine.
A while back, when I was preaching through Ephesians, I included the following letter in one of my sermons. It was written in 1 BC from a Roman citizen to his wife, who was expecting a child.
He wrote this:
I am still in Alexandria. … I beg and plead with you to take care of our little child, and as soon as we receive wages, I will send them to you. In the meantime, if (good fortune to you!) you give birth, if it is a boy, let it live; if it is a girl, expose it.
In case you didn’t know, “expose it” is a nice way of saying, “Throw it out. Let it die.”
Can you imagine living in a society where people choose whether or not they want to keep their baby based on its gender?
Can you imagine living in a society where people thought it was okay to kill a baby girl simply because you wanted a boy?
Oh… wait…
Make sure you show the women in your life how much you appreciate them today. And not just today, but every day! They do so much for all of us.
Here is a tribute to mothers which I heard years ago, and wanted to share with you today.
Somewhere between the youthful energy of the teenager and the golden twilight years of a women’s life, there lives a marvelous and loving person known… as mother.
A mother is a curious mixture of patience, kindness, tolerance, understanding, discipline, industry, purity, and love.
A mother can be at one and the same time, both love lore and counselor to a heart-sick daughter, and a head football coach to an athletic son.
A mother can sew the tiniest stitch in the material for that dainty prom dress, and she is equally experienced in threading through the heaviest of traffic with a large station wagon.
A mother is the only creature on earth who can cry when she’s happy, laugh when she’s heartbroken, and work when she’s sick.