All right, welcome to today's mini episode.

Um, this is going to be a little bit different.

This is, uh, something that I wrote a few months ago as I was meditating on becoming a father.

And I found myself looking forward into the future, trying to sort of predict

what was going to happen and how I, you know, wanted to be or act or how my life was going to

change. And I sort of was feeling into the intricacies of knowing that I was going to have to tend for and protect

and care for another life, another entity that would be heavily reliant on me for a number of

years. And there was this sort of selfish, adolescent petulance within me that I felt arising that almost felt angry to some degree

that a part of my freedom as I saw it was going to be taken away.

And so I was grappling with that while simultaneously trying to come to some sort of terms with what it would be like to be a father and how I wanted to show up in my son's life and the expectations of me as a man becoming a father.

And I wanted to share this with you, even though it feels very personal to me, I wanted to

share this with you because I think in many ways our roles as fathers are somewhat

mysterious in culture.

And there is an emergence and a hunger for fatherhood that I see within our culture.

Young boys and even adult men, you know, in their

40s and 50s, looking for mature masculinity, looking for men that symbolized that quality of

fatherhood. And I don't pretend to be that energy because I've only been a father for 18 days.

And I haven't got the foggiest clue. And I am still certainly trying to figure it out

with all its intricacies and complexities. But it's been a beautiful journey so far. And so

this little message called a message to my unborn son was written

and sort of birthed out of a contemplation. And it was a contemplation of the question,

what can a man say to a son he has not yet met? So here we go. A message to my unborn son. Dear son, what can a man say

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