And here's a hard truth about this.

Your family can feel, and you've probably felt this too, feel completely alone in a house

full of people.

If you're physically in the room, emotionally checked out, staring at your phone, half watching

TV, always somewhere else in your head, I was like that.

You know, I'd sit at the dinner table and be there physically,

but it really drove a wedge between my family and their emotional safety and provision.

If that's you, you're not providing for them emotionally.

What's up, man? Welcome back to your Friday field notes. This is your end of the week,

checking, so to speak, where we try to get as

practical and tactical as possible, try to get honest with each other about how the week went

and how we want next week to go and actually get to work. The weekend's a great time to reflect,

and hopefully you take some of these principles and apply them in your life as you

move forward. I want to talk with you today about something that I believe sits at the core

of what it means to be a man. And if you've been listening for any amount of time, you know this.

You probably agree. A man's job is to protect, provide, and preside. And preside is synonymous with lead.

That is a man's function. And there's no ifs ands or buts about it. Your job is to protect,

to provide, and to preside. But I think most of us have been thinking about one of these aspects

a lot or too narrowly, I should say. And that's the

provision component. Because most of the time when I say that word provide, most of us immediately

go to money. It's the income. It's the paycheck. It's the bank account. It's the investments.

And look, that financial provision, provision it matters and don't let

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