At the first church that I pastored, I had the job of mixing feed to supplement
my income. For a period of about two weeks, each day that I came home from work,
my two boys, ages 2 and 3 would look at me, smile, and would say, "Boy, dad, you
sure are dusty!" I would reply, "Yes, I sure am dusty." Then I would get cleaned
up.
I didn't think too much of this until I was washing my car and saw my oldest son
doing something very strange. He was picking up the gravel and stones that were
in our drive and rubbing them into his pants. I asked him, "Want are you doing?"
He replied, "I want to be dusty like you dad!"
I realized that if a child would look up to his father for being dusty and want
to copy his father, a child could look up to his father and follow him for
anything. What are you passing on to your son?
Jerry L Steen bigjersteen@juno.com
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