I recently shared coffee with a father of three. He’s a busy executive, with hundreds of people reporting up to him. He’s brokered global deals, served in key leadership roles, been on stages in front of thousands. Yet, guess what he carries with him in his (old school) day planner? Notes from his grown children. He’s collected a couple dozen of these notes over the years. They’re folded and shoved in his planner’s inside pocket. He will pull them out from time to time, maybe on a long international flight. In them, his children expressed their gratitude or encouraged him somehow. He didn’t ever ask for these notes, but he’s reaping the seeds he’s sown (2 Cor 9:6). During the three decades of being a dad, he’s penned dozens of notes to his children. They picked up on the habit. Why not take this next year and sow some appreciation and gratitude into your family? See what comes back. Maybe you too will end up lugging around similar blessings tucked into your carryon.

14 Fathers Day Scriptures for Spiritual Growth: Father’s Day is more than a just a day on the calendar every June. It’s a call for men to reflect on their lives and to become better versions of themselves. One way to make that happen is to immerse yourself in God’s Word, to hear what your heavenly Father has to say about your job as an earthly father. In this article, we’ve given you 14 Father’s Day Scriptures than can connect you to Him and to your family.

Cool Down: Putting Your Anger on Ice: The Hulk is the only person in history who’s ever benefitted from being angry all the time. And, of course, he’s make-believe, which means anger only creates pain and damages relationships in the real world. Yet, men tell us time and again that anger is one of their primary struggles. In this episode, we’ll look at the problems anger can cause, but we’ll also take it a step further. We’ll share some basic tips for finding a calmer and more peaceful you!

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The longer I live, the more I am enabled to realize that I have but one life to live on Earth, and that this one life is but a brief life, for sowing, in comparison with eternity, for reaping.”
– George Muller

“Good or bad, you will always reap what you sow — you will always harvest the consequences of your choices.”
– Randy Alcorn

Kent Evans
Author of Bring Your Hammer, co-founder of Manhood Journey

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