Josh Hatcher unpacks 6 things you need to know about raising kids!
You are a shepherd, a protector of your family and your community. Keep them safe, provide for them, and protect them. If that means following a bunch of rules you think are stupid so that your family and neighbors are safe, then do it. But protect and provide for them.
Not a thermometer. Don’t react in emotion – rather set the emotional temperature for those around you. Be calm. Be at peace. Control your emotions.
Enjoy the time that your kids are home from school. Eat dinner together. Invest in those relationships. Don’t gripe about how badly behaved they are – or drink to numb yourselves from the way they act. Rather – if they are unruly – teach them how to behave with discipline and love!
In honor of Man Crush Monday, we thought we’d share these downloadable wallpapers for your device that feature quotes this week’s Monday Man Crush:
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. – Martin Luther
You are not only responsible for what you say,
but also for what you do not say.
– Martin Luther
In honor of Man Crush Monday, we thought we’d share these downloadable wallpapers for your device that feature quotes this week’s Monday Man Crush:
If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.
– Henry Ford
You can’t build a REPUTATION on what you are going to do.
– Henry Ford
Every Thursday, we feature and highlight one part of masculinity that is often pushed to the side – creativity! This week, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood and Out of Your Shell Poetry will read “An Eclipse is Only Perspective” from “When Sea Billows Roll” available on Amazon today!
She was a beauty.
An Eclipse Is Only Perspective
When the moon, white as bone,
Passes in front of the sun.
The earth is shrouded for a moment.
Still. Quiet. And mesmerized.
Only the sun’s fiery crown lights up the edge of the sky.
Prophets cry out.
Scientists scribble notes.
It’s an omen! It’s science!
Yellow fire turns black.
The bone white moon turns black.
And wisps of sun fire glow almost green or blue.
Perspective really is everything.
She can block out the sun.
She can inspire poets to dance,
wise men to wonder,
children to blind themselves to get a once in a lifetime glimpse.
And a day’s journey away – the moon passes over, and no one even notices.
The world isn’t ending. The sun doesn’t go dark. No one is on their manicured lawns staring at the sky through goggles.
From their perspective, nothing changes. No bone white moon. No fiery crown. No blackened sky.
How do we know who we are? What is our value? Do we have virtue? How do we make sure that others know who we truly are? M
In the Ask A Man Segment, Josh answers this doozy of a question.
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In honor of Man Crush Monday, we thought we’d share these downloadable wallpapers for your device that feature quotes this week’s Monday Man Crush:
For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know
the worst and provide for it.
– Patrick Henry
FEAR IS THE PASSION OF SLAVES. – PATRICK HENRY
Josh McDonald in Appleton Wisconsin of the Geocaching Scripture Podcast talks about “The Hall of Faith” in Hebrews 11, threatens to punch us in the face of we call it that, and talks about the goal of being forgotten.
Every Thursday, we feature and highlight one part of masculinity that is often pushed to the side – creativity!
This week, Josh Hatcher of Manlihood and Out of Your Shell Poetry will read “Old Man and the Mill: ONE” – a poem from his book “Sweat, Sawdust and the Millpond” Available now on Amazon.
She was a beauty.
Ancient and upcycled old saw mill.
I have no idea what was original, and what has been replaced and hobbled. The antique yellow engine, half the age of the rest sputtered and coughed up diesel, spinning her belt.
The old sawn boards, greyed and cragged by the sun – cracks filled with white pine sawdust.
The old steel, tracks and carriage were black, with orange crust creeping at the edges. We kept it and the massive blade covered with rubber tarps, but moisture always found a way in….
Just enough to leave a little crust, not enough to eat it away.
My job was to clean the bark with an old crowbar. The bath in the deep millpond usually did it’s trick. The bark would shed like t-shirt… mostly in one piece.
We spun the log on the carriage, Old Man Bill and I.
I’d dodge his occasional curses as she played with him.
She’d taunt and tease. After all, she was much older than Old Man Bill.
And I’d stand on the backside of the blade, guiding the timbers over the rollers to the forklift.
On a hot day, she would reward me, coating me with wet sawdust and millpond spray. Oh, the smell of white pine and pond water and diesel was the best summer.
And at the end of the day, the spring that fed the millpond would give me a drink. I’d stick my whole face into the hole in the ground and suck the water in. Drowning just long enough to cool my hot tongue.
IN THIS EPISODE, JOSH HATCHER TALKS ABOUT THINKING, SPEAKING, and BEING POSITIVE. There is a tremendous power when we put aside the toxic and negative thoughts that hold us back. We feel, sometimes, hopelessness or despair, and like there can be no positive outcome. But when we change the way we think, it changes the way we feel, and in fact, it changes the outcome itself!
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Hatcher Media – Creative Marketing Solutions | Graphic Design | Video Production | Web Design | Content and Social Marketing
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