What kind of person do you want to be?

In different times and in different ways, our heavenly Father offers us a
simple proposition: Follow me beyond what you can control, beyond where
your own strength and competencies can take you, and beyond what is affirmed or risked by the crowd--and you will experience me and my power and my wisdom and
my love.
Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk
the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and
how much he loves me.
But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a
place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I
risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of
desperation. -Gary Haugen, Just Courage (you should read it!)

I often find myself asking my kids, "What kind of person do you want to be?"

Maybe I need to ask myself that same question...