You Should Have Known Me When September 12, 2011
Posted by geoff in News.trackback
Michael Shortly After Birth of Son
Yes, sixteen years ago I was a roiling, boiling mass of testosterone, but then:
Men may not go on a hormonal rollercoaster with their pregnant partners, but once the baby shows up, their bodies biologically transition into “daddy mode,” suggests a new study finding that levels of testosterone, the “macho” sex hormone, drop in new fathers.
…and if Dave and Michael are typical, then I can expect that I’ll never recover. Sigh.
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Can I be serious?
The enormous benefit of fatherhood is the emotional changes you go through. You become someone that you previously had not imagined. Someone better, and with a purpose. The kids themselves are not really all that rewarding. They cost a lot, to tell the truth.
Maybe there’s a reason why Jesus describes God to us as “Our Father . . .”
Actually, Jesus used the Aramaic expression “Abba”, which is more like “daddy” than father. The disciples were struck by this. Nobody had talked about God like this before in their experience. The exact Aramaic word is preserved in the Greek New Testament.
Can I be serious?
I don’t know. Can you?
“Children are an heritage of the Lord. Blessed is the man who hath his quiver full.”
Number 11 grandkid showed up last week. Only 14 to go before I hit the minimum acceptable number.
Children and grandchildren are worth whatever it takes!