I feel at times a wave come over me when I sense fatherhood fast approaching. The wave is a mixture of excitement and fear. I shared that with Heidi and of course in her wonderful ways she was affirming to me in that. It really is a weighty thing. And we ended up asking a profound question that we didn't really realize was profound at first.
Well isn't fatherhood more something you are, than something you do, anyway?
I am so easily carried away with concerns about the necessary tasks of each moment or the responsibilities for the future that I rarely think about the weight of this new identity. I am a father. This is who I am. That's crazy.
I wonder if it might be just as profound if we substituted “being Christian” into the same question?
Well isn't fatherhood more something you are, than something you do, anyway?
I am so easily carried away with concerns about the necessary tasks of each moment or the responsibilities for the future that I rarely think about the weight of this new identity. I am a father. This is who I am. That's crazy.
I wonder if it might be just as profound if we substituted “being Christian” into the same question?
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