CEO of Apple, Professional Fisherman, Sam Walton's grandson, CEO of Bass Pro Shop, you name it, what do all these have in common? Dreams of wealth, power and fun! These things so often stoke our behavior, thinking and drive our male ego. We all as men have that thing in us that makes us like that barnyard rooster doing his leg dance around his hen. That one thing that we think will catapult us into that surreal world that we know those who have them live in. Sure I know there are probably some out there who may appear to have it all but chances are no matter who they are there is still that nagging thought of "what if?". What if I was rich? What if I was powerful? What if I could just do what I love to do for a living? I don't have to give you all the stats on the people who have achieved in a large degree some form of the fantasies i have just mentioned, you can Google it and you will find if you read into their lives a bit that it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. So why on Gods green earth do we still covet these things when we know the burden and pain that so often comes with them? I mean you'd think with all the computers and intelligence we have we could have come up with an app for our smart phones to fix this problem.
   Ok, so you re saying, Scot you are so out in left field I'm just trying to keep my head above water day to day. Work is tough, my wife and I cant connect like I wish, the bills are never ending and I love my children so much but the responsibility at times is more than I bargained for. Its a problem in our society all to often where men enjoy "making babies" but to often find raising those "babies" a real burden. There are many fathers but the dad's are to often hard to find and the result is a society with the rising problems we see on the headlines of CNN and FOX. Well here is where I hope this blog will help us. The hard fact is we need to encourage one another as husbands and dad's that "the normal is extraordinary"! So, I have this vision where the common lives of common husbands and dad's can be placed back in the "extraordinary". I don't claim to be an "extraordinary" dad, I have the same struggles as all the rest of you husbands and dads but I hope this blogging journey will help us find fresh encouragement to be the men our families need.
   I'm not interested in trying to fool us all into thinking that life is all roses and chocolate or in our case as men, easy money, big bucks (no not dollars), state record fish, no bills, bass boats, 2012 4 wheel drive 4 door diesel trucks tinted windows jacked up.....or a 5.0 mustang will do, well you get the point, Oh! and chocolate. No my post will be about everyday life and making the most of what God has blessed us with and everyone has something to be thankful for. I believe the Bible has the keys to the making of real men, I believe we need the Spirit of God in us to give us divine guidance to be those men we need to be but I will say this I believe in down to earth, realistic, easy to identify with people that aren't floating on a cloud of impossible to reach unattainable spirituality. Lets be spiritually minded but not spiritually blinded, I don't want my blog to be a vomit comet of abscure spiritual theology but a place where our relationship with God is just downright raw and personal and our experiences not whitewashed to make me look more righteous but just real. So you will no doubt read into many of my sins but I trust Gods grace will pull me through.
   As you can tell I'm not great with English so you will find grammatical errors, if this bothers you and you know your stuff please become my editor. Your starting pay will be... well you wont be paid, OK maybe you'll stop being bothered after all.