So what is our destination and how do we get going?

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So we have been traveling a bit with no real spelled out plan for this journey nor what the journey will entail.  It looks more like we have been through some form of Driver's Education.  Well let's get off the interstate for a bit and take a look at a map and see what this plan looks like.

Yes guys, I said map, not a GPS or Cell phone hookup.  We need the real map.  Believe it or not I still have several maps at the house from various states my wife and I have had the privilege to drive through or at least into.  I like to see where I am going to go and the various towns we will end up in throughout our trip.  I enjoy being with my wife.  Even when the Kids were home we always enjoyed being together.  Yes there have been some difficult times but we overcame them and continue to enjoy the trip.

But now, what does this trip look like to us as men.  As teens we know all the answers, as young adults we just "know" and as we grow older into adulthood in the thirties we begin to understand all that we don't know.  Then confession is good for the soul and we begin to understand how much we appreciate our parents but now we are no longer newlyweds and we are in the early phase of mid-life.  All of these different phases take time and a lot of patience with our parents, wife and children.  We are doing some serious juggling with the few hours in each day just to find some time alone, much less with the family.

As we travel on this journey we will more than visit each of these phases of life but we are going to dwell a bit in each one and see what God's plan for us as Men is going to develop into.

God has a plan for each one of us.  We need to place that plan in His care as He guides us into a deeper relationship with Him.

John 10: 10 (commit this to memory, it pays off!)

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