Live courageously from your heart!
Have you seen this ad from General Mills promoting the New Peanut Butter Cheerios?
It’s so rare these days to see a commercial that’s positive, uplifting and promotes fatherhood. Glad to see that General Mills stood for pro-fatherhood and pro-family in this commercial because being a dad is AWESOME!
Men, how do you ‘dad’?
Was the end of a long day and I sat down down on the couch to decompress. Navigating the endless channels of ‘nothing to watch’ on cable, I stumbled on a movie called Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Bobby Jones was a child prodigy who became The Man.
A short-tempered, club-throwing youth, Jones turned into an even-dispositioned and unruffled champion. In the Golden Age of Sport, Jones took his place alongside such giants as Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Red Grange and Bill Tilden. From 1923 to 1929, the Georgia gentleman dominated golf, birdieing his way into this country’s heart by winning nine major championships.
Then in 1930, he won the Grand Slam, which one writer picturesquely called “the impregnable quadrilateral.” He was so popular that he was accorded a ticker-tape parade in New York — before he won the final two legs of the Slam.i
So, what did I learn from a golfer? Was it golf?
The film “Courageous” inspired men to commit themselves to their God-ordained responsibilities. “The Resolution” is the bold declaration they pledged to live out and hold each other accountable to.
So I ask you…where have all the men gone?
Men, run the race while you have breath and finish strong! Don’t be complacent. Don’t settle. Strive for greatness. Be better then the status quo.
Are you ready to man up?
As the illusions of this worldview spin around me out of time and frame, the walls of my tower of Babel crumble and fall! One could almost hear the demonic laughter and cheers coming from the darkness of the abyss as each stone smashes to the ground like hardened drops of rain.
“We have to tell the kids,” she said. [About the divorce]
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat.
