In this Sikh season, we want to spend four weeks just kind of working through this idea

of seeking. We want to be all in on Sikh season. So let's go together to Genesis 29 and

verse number 20. It says, so Jacob serves seven years to get Rachel, but they seem like only a few

days to him because of his love for her.

I want to talk from this subject in our time together family. We've got work to do.

We've got work to do.

Family, several years ago at a men's gathering, I conducted an informal poll in an attempt to get a sense of what words men would use to describe their sentiments and sensibilities regarding their relationships.

I knew I would get an array of emotions,

but I was looking for one word that stuck out head and shoulders above the rest

that described the way the majority of the men felt not about,

but in their relationships.

And as you could imagine, there were a plethora of responses,

but there is one sentiment that consistently stood out,

undeniably, unequivocally, head and shoulders above the rest.

And that was, in that room, most men felt unappreciated.

Now, please don't hear what I'm not saying.

Please don't read what I'm not writing.

I am not saying they were saying't read what I'm not writing. I am not saying

they were saying they were unappreciated. I'm saying they felt unappreciated. They felt as if

there was not adequate expression. There was not intentionality when it came to verbally or visibly articulating the value of the contribution that they were making to the relationship.

And as I began to reflect on that experience, I came to the conclusion and to the

consensus that is not only men who share that sentiment, that anybody can be in a relationship

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