Been reading this book - Wild at heart. Just some extracts... "A question that every boy and man is longing to ask. Do I have what it takes? Am I powerful? Until a man knows he's a man he will forever be trying to prove he is one while at the same time shrink from anything that might reveal he is not. Most men live their lives haunted by the question, or crippled by the answer they've been given." "Masculinity is bestowed. A boy learns who he is and what he's got from a man, or the company of men. He cannot learn it from other boys, and he cannot learn it from the world of women. The plan from the beginning of time was that his father would lay the foundation for a young boy's heart, and pass on to him that essential knowledge and confidence in his strength. Dad would be the first man in his life, and forever the most important man..." "Every man carries a wound...Men either overcompensate for their wound and become driven (violent men), or they shrink back and go passive (retreating men). Often it's an odd mixture of both." "The wound comes, and with it a message. From that place the boy makes a vow, chooses a way of life that gives rise to the false self. At the core of it all is a deep uncertainty. The man doesn't live from a center. So many men feel stuck - either paralyzed and unable to move, or unable to stop moving." "...no one had ever shown them how to take a house before, They had been trained, but not for that. Most men had never been initiated into manhood. They had never had anyone show how to do it, and especially, how to fight for their heart....If you ever really got your heart back, lived from it with courage, you would be a huge problem to the Enemy..." I see these in my dad...i see these in my brother...i see these in some of you. God, let my guys be surrounded with strong godly men in their lives. Let their wounds be healed.