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What I Learned: From my Summer Father

“What I Learned” is a guest post series of readers telling their personal stories about lessons they have learned about relationships in hopes of helping us all grow and cherish the relationships that matter the most to us. If you would like to submit a story for this series, click here. This guest post is by Paul Sohn.

fa·ther [fah-ther]

1. [noun]  a role model who gives the gifts of guidance and wisdom while learning how to stretch his ability to love beyond what he knew was possible.

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Parenthood and Prayer

What my Baby is Teaching me about Prayer

A while ago, a friend suggested to me that I might want to write about what I’ve been learning about prayer through my experience of being a parent.  Since prayer and the deepening of my relationship with God are matters that are close to my heart, and parenthood is the bulk of my daily life these days, it made sense to me to give it some thought.

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Lessons of a New Mom: Love is a Discipline

This is a preview of a guest post I wrote for my friend Daisy Go‘s blog: My Journey Into Motherhood. 

Living life with an infant, I feel like I am learning afresh that love is often a discipline. The word “discipline” might come as a surprise to you.  But what I mean is that love is made up of all the little choices I make throughout the day.  Some of these choices are easy (like dropping everything to play with my smiling baby) but many times the choices require more effort.
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10 Things I Learned the Hard Way Postpartum

Throughout this first month of motherhood, I’ve been reflecting on what I wish someone had told me about beforehand.  It might not have changed anything, but I guess it would have been nice to have known some of these things.  Everyone’s experience is different, but I thought I’d try to write mine down in case someone else might benefit from my hard-learned lessons.
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