A Simple Challenge to Dad, and Granddad!

By Mo Hodge

 Have you noticed how easy it is to be nice to the lady at McDonalds? Or how kind you can be to the teller at the bank? Or, even the cashier at the grocery?

When I was a young dad I realized that I was nicer to the people that I didn’t even know than I was to the people in my own family . . . to the people that I loved the most . . . to the people that loved me the most . . . to my own wife and kids.

Yes, sadly I admit, my family was the people I was most unkind to. They were the ones who suffered my wrath; who felt the lash of my tongue. They were the ones who would read my face to see if I was in a good mood or a bad. My own little children hoping that daddy would be kind today.

Well, one day the Lord hit me with this realization. With His prod, I decided to change all that. I came up with a “house rule.” A “house rule” that was more for me, than for anyone else.

Here was my “house rule,” which later became everyone’s house rule.

Each of us will be kinder to the people in our own family than we are to anyone else in the whole world.

Simple enough.

This decision made our entire family a fun place to be . . . a fun place to live.

Try it! It will make your family the best family in the whole world!

As founding Pastor of The Bridge Community Church and Executive Director of Mo Hodge Ministries, Mo resources Pastors and Leaders in the area of leadership development. He enables Pastors and leaders in the following areas: Developing Teams, Church Growth, Church Planting, Discipleship Multiplication, Nonprofit Organizational Management, Multi-site Church Development, Public Speaking, Capital Campaigns, and Sr. Pastor Succession. … Mo and his wife, Nancy, live in Anderson, IN with their children and grandchildren. Though retired, Mo is still active in ministry, preaching, teaching, and planting new churches wherever the Lord leads. You can follow him through his Newsletter.

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