I’ve begun a Google pages site as an “About Me” section for this an other pages I have online. It’s built around the series of words I use to describe who I am.As I build out the content, I’ll share each section here. First up, Man.
Above all else, I’m a man. And though I find myself falling short much of the time, this is a role I take seriously. My definition? Leader, provider and protector – as a husband, father, businessman and member of my community (local and global). These are the traits I was born to manifest.
It’s difficult. It’s meant to be.
Be strong and courageous, do not tremble or be discouraged,
for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go – Joshua 1:9
I hope to live out:
Strength – The poet Carl Sandburg wrote these words of Abraham Lincoln: “Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel and velvet, who is as hard as rock and soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.”
Passion – “Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Thurman
Faith – Theodore Roosevelt: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high-achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
