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Brotherhood. What is it? How do you foster it, nourish it? Those are good questions. I mean we long to be a part of a company of men.

This is Craig McConnell at a recent Men's Conference, Morgan, John, Bart, and I.

We're asked the question on Brotherhood and what you're going to hear here on this podcast is our response to that question. Hope it encourages you.

Brotherhood.

Brotherhood, how do you preserve it?

How do you preserve it? How do you preserve it?

How do you protect it? How do you protect it? How important is it to you?

Yeah, I'd say it's probably one of the two or three most important things in my life.

And the short answer is you have to fight for it because it is it is so freaking opposed in so many ways.

But I find so much life there and it gives me life and hopefully I give some life in that and it helps sustain me in my marriage because it's it's you guys that I go to that

help me in those dark moments and can see me on those days when you say hey

you're riding a little low in the water, what's going on today?

I would perish without that.

So it's vital.

And how do you protect it? How do you preserve it?

Well I think I have to just stay with it and live in it and again you have to fight to live in it. I mean it just kind of comes back to that I mean all those are kind of connected with each other. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah John I'd say it is so fiercely opposed. I mean, it's just one of the top

categories that's so hard to fight for and there's every excuse in the book and I'm

guilty of it, but I would say that it's by having an unbalanced life.

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