Quiet Time Notes

Notes from my daily Quiet Times with God

Wild at Heart - The wound (part 3)

September 3rd, 2009
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Masculinity – boy craves (passed between men)

Boys love to wrestle

• physical contact
• sandpaper of my whiskers
• to test their fathers

Do they have a strength like dad’s?
Is it growing, real, substantive?

Mother does not give new respect to son - hurts
Clinging mother - she feels rejected and son feels guilty
Many adult resent their mothers and do not know why
Mom did not let go and dad did not take him away

We do not grow up wondering if we are going to be a nice boy. Be wild and we need to know that