Dear Son, Above All

Dear Son, your personal integrity, rooted in your deep spiritual core beliefs, should remain first above all other values.

The testing (temptation) will stop when you die. Not before. Do the right thing.

In preparing a Plan B, years in the making, I launched an LLC in 2009, five years before I could take ‘early’ retirement at 55.

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Dear Son, This Is How It Works

Dear Son, life is pretty straight forward. It will be hard, fun, exciting, tempting, fulfilling, heavy, and if we’re lucky, long.

You will work most of you life. In ‘the old days’, most people got a job with a company that took care of them – regular work for regular pay, benefits, opportunity, etc.

The world you’re headed to is one in which old paradigms are being rewritten or crushed.

Pray for guidance as you move through your ‘career’ and support yourself (at first) and then your Family. The earlier you learn and embrace an entrepreneurial spirit, the sooner you’ll have a plan B.

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Dear Son #13

Dear Son, as you watch me and your Mother today at Church, know that volunteering time to serve others is part of our obligation as believers.

As I Lector this morning, try to remember the story I’ve told you many times, as it was first told to me by another Holy Family volunteer.

You may think you are simply doing “a reading’, but for nearly everyone in the pews, you are the only scripture they will hear all week. Don’t read. Proclaim God’s Holy Word!”

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Dear Son, Part 3 of 5

Not groceries in his cart, but everything he owns…

Dear son, everyday, many choices. This won’t end until you die. If you’re blessed, that will be a long time from now. Your second cousin, Jack, lived 10 days.

Life…please don’t take it for granted, and please don’t waste it. There’s too much beauty and joy to consume and share.

Putting others ahead of yourself may not make sense until you’ve been here a few decades. However, you are off to a great start.

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