Search for the LORD and for his strength; continually seek him. 1 Chronicles 16:11 NLT
Yesterday I was mowing my lawn, and looked up to the front door of the house. There I saw my toddler and my dog with their noses pressed against the glass. Mom was inside. Big brother was inside. But these two had a shared, singular focus: dada.
Our MSM minister Taylor Start did an excellent job presenting the challenge to our MS students this weekend to change their hashtag to #God, so this image really set in for me. My son and my dog, if they had a hashtag that encompassed their lives, right now it would read #dad.
In this moment, the challenge of parenting was again beautifully clear: if I want the label on my kids’ lives to be #God, then the only way I can achieve that is to make sure that’s the label they, and everyone else, would put on me.
So what about you? What’s your hashtag? If you asked everyone around you to label you with one word, what would you hear?
I bet you got a good sense of a few words. I did when thinking about it. Are you happy with those results? What are you going to do about it?
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