“God Made The Country”
Going into the outdoors should help boys grow not only physically and mentally, but morally. Our relationship with God is the foundation of morality… and the highest instinct in man is a personal relationship with God.
We have fabricated our own artificial world in the city, but, as someone once said, “God made the country.” Everything that the city boy comes in contact with is ‘man-made’.
“Even the ground is covered with buildings and paving blocks; the trees are set in rows like telegraph poles; the sunlight is diluted with smoke from the factory chimneys, the moon and stars are blotted out by the glare of the electric light; and even the so-called lake in the park is a scooped-out basin filled by pumps. Little wonder that a boy who grows up under these conditions has little reverence for a God whose handiwork he has not seen.“ ~Walter M. Wood in Association Boys, June. 1907.
It seems to me that a boy needs to go into the woods at some point in his life to meet God… to see His creation in all it’s splendor… What better person to take him on this adventure than his dad.
James
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Love this post! … and love the encouragement for dads to step up and introduce their boys to God’s creation…
Thanks for sharing…