Monkey See, Monkey Do

Have you ever heard the saying, “Monkey see, monkey do”? As it turns out, this saying is not just true about monkeys—but children as well. In a book called It’s Better to Build Boys than Mend Men by Truett Cathy, the founder of Chick-fil-A, a sentence stood out to me. Cathy wrote, “Children will never believe in the covenant of marriage unless they see you living it with their own eyes.” And you know, I think this is true for a lot of things—certainly marriage, but other things as well.
As a father, I wanted my boys to respect the covenant of marriage, so it was important for Pat and me to love and respect each other in a biblical way. I wanted the boys to keep their promises and hold true to their word, so I tried very hard to keep mine. I wanted them to evangelize and have a passion for spreading the Good News—so I tried to include them when I was doing so.
Of course, no parent is perfect, and I had my moments. God doesn’t call us to be perfect. Rather, God says in the book of John