The idea

I'm a man of adventure, one whose always ready for a challenge. I've experienced the open ocean while in the Navy, I've jumped out of a perfectly good airplane in the Army, and now I work within the realm of special operations within the Air Force. The military, and this beautiful country have afforded me many benefits in the realm of travel beyond our borders. Unfortunately, I didn't feel like I was really a man til I had been tried and tested, and I didn't experience that til I had joined the military. Even then I didn't find my worth as a man until I began to study the bible at which time I understood what God had called me to do, it was then that I felt I was validated.

Tribal and nomadic peoples of the globe for centuries have had a rite of passage for their boys transition into young men. The Australian Aboriginies go on "Walk About", the Massai kill a lion, another tribe in Africa do a ritual regarding a crocodile and so on. Yet what do we do for our young men? Yea times change, our culture is to fast paced for such empty nonsense. We're too busy as fathers making a living to pay for all our stuff then to trifle with when our boys begin to enter manhood. We don't know at what point our boys become "men". We'll let our culture define it for us. If that's the case when is it? Is it when they graduate high school or college, is it when they are victorious on the grid iron, or the wrestling mat, maybe it's when they are in the backseat of a car or between the sheets with a young lady for the first time. God help us! When is it.

I heard an interesting bit of trivia, did you know that when the Titanic went down that men were classified as ages 13 and up. Now I'm not gonna get into all the stuff that went wrong on the Titanic, I'm focusing on 13 years old! That was less than hundred years ago. Now our 13 year olds aren't required to do anything exceptional, except maybe mow the grass. Sad to say in most cases they don't even do that because we don't "man up" and give them responsibilities.

It's late let me make my point. I want a pivotal point in my childs life when he sees himself as having accomplished somthing hard. A point where he was challenged and pushed further than he thought he was able to go. A moment in time where he reflects back on his life and says to himself, I rose to the challenge and when I succeeded my Pops, Dad, Father, or whatever recognized me as a man. And it was at that my point that my life changed. Have you had that? Have you had that with your father? If not wouldn't it have been so freakin cool? I think so, instead I had to go find it on my own like many of you.