I started to process something a few months back.
My bride and I were doing a nightly devotional reading and we read one about the way your partner sees you. Now there is a thought. How does Kari "see" me?
-as a mechanical, manly genius?
-as a balding, middle-aged man?
-as a sarcastic, witty guy...that one is a given.
-as a Godly, in love with Jesus guy?
-as a fire-building, Carhart-wearing outdoors-man?
Just how does she view me? And more importantly, what image am I giving her and living out in front of her?
The question that came to me is this..
Am I being the man I want to be? The man my wife needs me to be? The man God has called me to be?
-am I good man?
-am I a trusting man?
-am I a praying man?
-am I a hardworking man?
-am I a brave man?
-am I a loving man?
-am I a caring man?
-am I a courageous man?
-am I a fair man?
These are the things I desire to be, the things I hope to be to my wife, and to my future child. The man I want to be is a man that is all of those things. I know I am not perfect, but my goal is that man.
