No matter what great things you may do outside of your home, the greatest things you will ever do will be with your family.

While your family may be proud of whatever you accomplish, if they lose a piece of you in the process they may later resent your accomplishments. As fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, our kids and spouses want our time more than our success.

Family calls us to relationship – the depth of which our culture tries to avoid at all cost. Relationship means time: time taking walks, listening to the activities of the day, playing, laughing, and being unproductive. It is means a depth that comes from knowing who you really are when only they see, and loving you anyway. These things are unquantifiable. Family slows us down, focusing us on the long road of life.

However, many times it is the first to go and be replaced. I’m convinced if I want a tight knit family when I’m old(er)it beings with each moment I spend with them now. My kids bring me back from adult world into a world of presence. My wife grounds me with her insight. When it comes down to it, they just want me for me – not because of what I do but because of who I am.