Even if nobody asked……
1. The key to looking great for your age? Add ten years when someone asks how old you are. Never fails, right 74-year-old John Lake?
2. “There’s only one crime a woman cannot be forgiven for. No husband will ever forgive her for marrying him. The American male is a quivering mass of insecurities. If a woman makes the mistake of loving him, he will make her suffer terribly for her utter lack of taste.” – Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides.
3. 99% of the time the right time is right NOW.
4. As a dad, I don’t have a tab with my kids anymore. I’m just spending their inheritance when I buy them something these days. I think this concept gives them a Popsicle headache.
5. When I officiate a wedding, I tell people I have one thing they can do to ensure they never get divorced. What is it? Simple, pray over each other daily. Out loud. Changes everything.
6. Kitchens are at half-staff today with the death of the man who created the George Foreman Grille. A life well-lived, Champ.
7. I am not a throw-down guy over very many things but go ahead and wear a Best Dad Ever tee-shirt in front of me and you’ll set off the steel-cage trigger that sits at the very top of my list. Let’s go!
8. If you punish a kid over spilled milk, you didn’t teach him not to spill things. You just taught him to be afraid of milk.
9. God doesn’t punish sin. Sin punishes sin.
10. Life with my wife: “Hey, we’re going to a movie tonight and I’m not telling you what it is, and I don’t want you trying to figure it out.” I surrender to her innovation and accept – almost graciously. She doesn’t even let me see the tickets. We end up as the only two people in the whole theater! Rut-ro. The previews are all HORROR flicks (she hates those) and the movie title doesn’t appear until we’re 20 minutes into the movie. In the greatest example of marital discipline and proof that we can get through anything together, Trish and I last a whole hour before we look at each other, burst out laughing and walk out.
Rock it out today. You're the best.