Thursday, February 3, 2011

Loin Fruit

Real success.

Its more than money and fancy things. Its about the feeling you get when you look into the eyes of your off spring and they say something that reverberates off of your soul. A phrase that takes the dreams of adolescence, devours the marrow, and leaves the carcass.

Today my son, full of life and energy, said to me, "my car has two doors that open."

Then he said to me... in our most intimate moment, "I want to poop in your ear".

One of my great fears in this life is that I would somehow fail as a father. I know now that failure isn't an option for me... not a reality... not a possibility. When your boy has the gusto to say that to his father. When he can tweak your nose with a twinkle in his eye and say the most inappropriate thing his three year old mind can devise. This is success. This is center of everything that I have worked for and been given.

2 comments:

  1. Awesome. Are you sure this wasn't Carter who said this and not your son?

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  2. Amen- i used this as my devotional today. Good-bye Oswald Chambers

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