Growing fathers

I watched a couple of the men at church whose wives have just given birth, caring for their wives and their children. They carry them in the halls, they round them up gladly and sometimes haggardly, they give off the kind of harried loving parenting that I love to see, because it means they’re growing and they genuinely love their children. I’m grateful for Shawn, who didn’t have their example to look up to as a kid, and yet loved his children and cared for them. I’m grateful he loved me, and therefore he made room for what I was interested in, which happened very much to be caring for our children and learning as much as possible.