Young Man: Ageless Fatherly Wisdom to Hold

A Quick Note to Fathers

Fathers if you don’t want to raise your children, then the streets will raise them for you; However, you should know that the streets will teach your child what the streets want to teach them, things such as how to get over, how to deal drugs, how to abuse and disrespect others including authority, and how to hate as a result of the cold world they face.  In nearly all cases, their own ruin will result.  Is this what you offer a child?  Is this what you present to the world?  At birth you hold the child up for all to see, what will we see when he is grown?

The streets will teach the child many things in ways you may not have wished the child to be taught, for the benefit of the streets and the streets only!  Consider how many young men have turned to gangs and other role models because the model they should have had defaulted!  He either was not there or did not take the time to guide his own child.  Many fathers don’t even know what’s important to pass on.  The world is a cold and cruel place without guidance.  It is cold and cruel because someone or many have chosen to close their heart of compassion for another.  “For a lack of knowledge, the people perish.” (KJV) A young man must be given instruction and correction in life.

Chapter 1: A Father’s Role

“…That this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom

-and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,

shall not perish from the Earth.”

Abraham Lincoln

A Father is an essential part of any Man’s development.  It is a Father who can show both compassion and issue firm discipline.  A Father teaches morality, hard work, and the pleasures and dangers in life.  He is guided in life by his wisdom and convictions.  A father is by position a leader and role model in the home and community.  He also knows how to discern what leaders to follow in the community, on his job, and in the church for the good of all.

There must be a father.  How can we follow if there is no one to lead?  How can we learn if there is no one there to teach?  Consider such a great host of Men in America’s past such as those that led the Civil rights movement, or the Civil War, and Revolutionary war, to include those who laid the foundations of the U.S. Constitution, who we call our forefathers.  They are called founding fathers because they led in the hard work of laying down the foundations of freedom and equalities that we all so richly enjoy today and we now continue the fight today for future generations of Americans and all mankind.  In short, our fathers are our guide.

Many say there is no guide book to raising a child.  Dare I say that the teaching in the Holy Bible along with an understanding is all you will ever need to identify and compete with the most successful in life!  The Bible has examples of overcoming racism, bullies, thugs, sexual perversion, the war between good and evil, sibling rivalry, bad parenting, rising to power, falling from power, purpose, living without purpose, and the benefits of obedience.  If you have not known this as a child, you must as a Man.  Our greatest leaders of the past used this very book to guide our great nation from obscurity to purpose.  If it can lead and inspire a nation, it can guide a man.

What is clear is that America is a great nation which symbolizes an independent free mind and spirited people of liberty and opportunity and evokes the admiration and envy of countless millions of men and women around the world. It embodies the true spirit of every man.  American Men and Women of all races, who themselves or their ancestors before them came to America with purpose, hope, dreams, and endeavors of all fashions whether business pursuits, social opportunities, religious practices, political dialogue, and other capitalistic ventures to build for themselves and loved ones a more just, secure and prosperous future. To these Americans the values and traditions they share are more than just a symbol.  It is the way they choose to live.

It is a land where one and his family can rise from humble beginnings to amass considerable prosperity and fortune through ingenuity, dedication and beliefs.  Many are fortunate enough to cast their life dreams and ambitions amongst the freest most powerful industrialized nation ever known in hope