Joe.Budde.Jr

It has been much too long since I wrote anything. I’m not even going to do the math. But, I haven’t exactly been doing nothing.  I’ve been doing this:

And trying to teach him as best as I can and as best as his little heart and brain can learn, these things (among a million others – like how to sit still during a diaper change):

• Contribution, not celebrity. — Which my friend Todd so brilliantly described as “In a western culture that seems to value celebrity with no merit whatsoever, we must begin to ask once more “what does it mean to contribute?””
• Proverbs 2:2-4 — “turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding— indeed, if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure.”