when we capture the glimpses of it, when your family's around a table and you're like,

whoa, this just feels right.

Hey, what's up, guys? Welcome back to Five Minute Fatherhood. Have you ever thought about family

as being God's artistic expression? I think one of the things that as we think about family and

we live in a culture that understandably is asking a lot of questions like, do we have to do it

this way? I mean, there's a lot of, there's a lot of brokenness in family. And maybe this is just

an experiment that isn't working or, you know, maybe people are oriented differently.

And so it just makes it difficult to defend. Is there really kind of a design behind this idea?

Or is it all up for grabs and we can just reinvent this kind of at will? And I think one of the things that has really been impacting me as I've thought about this.

And there's lots of, you can have

this conversation at lots of different levels. You can have it at the functional level, like what

works best for raising kids or, you know, those kinds of things. But I want to like just have a

brief conversation to kind of pull back, pull all the way up, you know, through the layers to the

biggest picture, which is a family was God's idea, and he was designing

something as an artist, something that he really, that reflected his nature, his character,

and we can glorify God through pursuing and building families. And we are, as we're doing that, we're capturing,

or catching a glimpse of the goodness of God, of God's nature and God's character. Even as

fallen families, we try to reflect these things as well as we can. We try to reflect fatherhood

and motherhood and sonship and daughterhood.

And we're always going to do that in, you know, in sometimes, you know, less than perfect ways, of course. But, but this is, it's really, it's really a powerful thing to, to fall in love

with the idea of family. And really, I'm talking about the design of family. The way it was originally

designed is so beautiful. And that when we capture the glimpses of it, when your family's

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