This topic has been on top of mind for sometime now. I no longer call it a college fund but a future fund. With technology changing the workplace landscape so quickly it is hard to predict what income generation will look like in the future. My son, is nothing like me. He is the kindest, caring most gentle soul I have ever met. God created me to be a protector with high threshold for spiritual, emotional and physical pain in order to do just that. I worry that I will corrupt his nature in my foolish attempts to protect him in this world, I much rather see my little unicorn bee happy and frolick and I stand guard on the wall, but I know one day, I face my end of watch
Russell -- you and I share a rare gift. Sons who are kind, gentle, and soft in the best way. What you said stopped me. That God made you for pain so your son wouldn't have to carry it. That's not just fatherhood. That's covenant. We don't protect our kids from the world by making them hard. We protect them by standing between them and it...long enough for them to become fully themselves. Your son's gentleness isn't a liability. It's the very thing worth guarding. And the wall doesn't make the warrior lesser. It makes the garden possible. Stand your post, brother!
This topic has been on top of mind for sometime now. I no longer call it a college fund but a future fund. With technology changing the workplace landscape so quickly it is hard to predict what income generation will look like in the future. My son, is nothing like me. He is the kindest, caring most gentle soul I have ever met. God created me to be a protector with high threshold for spiritual, emotional and physical pain in order to do just that. I worry that I will corrupt his nature in my foolish attempts to protect him in this world, I much rather see my little unicorn bee happy and frolick and I stand guard on the wall, but I know one day, I face my end of watch
Russell -- you and I share a rare gift. Sons who are kind, gentle, and soft in the best way. What you said stopped me. That God made you for pain so your son wouldn't have to carry it. That's not just fatherhood. That's covenant. We don't protect our kids from the world by making them hard. We protect them by standing between them and it...long enough for them to become fully themselves. Your son's gentleness isn't a liability. It's the very thing worth guarding. And the wall doesn't make the warrior lesser. It makes the garden possible. Stand your post, brother!