Welcome to the Daily Dad podcast where we provide one lesson every day to help you with your

most important job being a dad. These are lessons inspired by ancient philosophy, by practical

wisdom, and insights from dads all over the world.

Thank you for listening, and we hope this helps.

Love is about service. Hemingway was not a great husband or as often as he should have been a great father.

He had four wives, at least one affair, and was often absent in his family's life,

preferring to spend his time when he was not writing, big game hunting, deep sea fishing, bullfighting, and so on.

But he was a great writer and a great observer of the human condition.

There are few scenes in literature that capture love and loss and the terrifying but also

inspiring moment of becoming a father quite like the end of a farewell to arms.

And nothing quite captures love like this quote from it. When you love, you wish to do things for, you wish to sacrifice for, you wish to serve. Isn't that what we're all doing as dads? We're asking that question that Tom Hanks expressed almost as beautifully as Hemingway. What do you need me to do? You offer that up to them. I will do anything I can possibly do in order to keep you safe. That's it.

Offer that up and then just love them. So think about that today. Remind yourself of what love is,

what your job is. You're here to serve, whether that's driving them around or just listening to

them talk. Your job is to sacrifice to give what you didn't get. Offer that up. Offer it always,

even if they're not ready to take it, even if they don't understand, even if you're not as good

as you'd like to be. Just keep doing and keep serving. Thank you for listening to the Daily Dad

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