Mary Cassian explains a stick figure picture her five-year-old son drew for her many years ago.

My three sons and myself were in the water, and it was a treacherous situation where we were being overcome with waves.

And on the drawing, you can see that my one son is going under.

He's got an unhappy look on his face.

He's going, umph gurgle.

The other son is going under as well.

And I am struggling.

I have a very unhappy look on my face.

But my son Jonathan has a big smile on his face.

And he's calling out help. Oh, and then you see over on the pier, Daddy, and Johnny has a big smile on his face because he's calling out help.

And what Daddy is saying in his little word balloon is, here I come, John.

So Daddy's going to save Jonathan. And he looked at me and he said, Daddy's going to come

save me because that's what Daddy's do. This is the Reviver Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas

Walgamuth, co-author of True Woman 101, Divine Design. For September 15th, 2021, I'm Dana Gresh.

That's what daddies do. Simple words spoken by a child. It was a time when those words

would have seemed obvious and true to most

everyone. But today, it seems that a lot of people around us have very little understanding of what

daddies or mommies or men or women should do. In fact, we live in a day when it's considered

ignorant, wrong-headed, or even hateful to suggest that our differences, as men

and women, are good and beautiful, and that those differences are not demeaning to either sex.

That said, those God-created differences are sometimes twisted by the enemy in some really

hurtful ways.

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