THIS IS MY SON IN WHOM I AM WELL PLEASED

By: Cortland Jones

My son is blessed to have a father, in a way I didn’t as a child, to affirm him, sow and pour into him life-giving affirmations and model humility, love and manhood for him in a manner that aids him in having an example that he can make use of as a legacy to pass on to his future children, family and community

Wise, strong and self-controlled were the three character traits my son identified in a conversation to me about what it meant to be a man or how he defined who a man is when he was still a teenager. Every so often, when we would talk about a challenge, situation or circumstance he was facing I would ask him which manhood attributes (wisdom, strength, self-control)...

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