The Real Deal.....or a wannabe?

Do you sometimes question how you are doing as a man, husband, and father?  Do you have some of those reflective moments alone when you consider how you are perceived as a man, husband, and father, and how those perceptions line up with how you really are?

We aren't born with an owners manual in our hand, nor a set of instructions that gives us that annoying step by step "part a to part b" diagram guide to better built men.  And one thing that science has never discovered is a "better husband-better father" gene or chromosome.  Lacking those things, we are left with only personal choices and decision making in whether to use the help from those tools available to us or not.  Those tools include:

• the best established resource available to us...the Bible
• the experience of others who have walked a similar path
• prayer
• communication

We may never be perfect men, husbands, and fathers.  But we certainly can be good men, husbands, and fathers.  This might be a list that a wife and mother would use to describe that "good man":

We won't hit them all, all of the time....we are human.  There will be bumps in the road from time to time.  But as long as we know, and they know that we are trying consistently to be the real deal, we will never be labeled, or think of ourselves, as a wannabe.