The Man Who Keeps the House Standing but Feels Forgotten Inside It
Chapter 1: The Silence After Everyone Has Been Taken Care Of Brother, there is a moment that comes in some homes after everyone else has settled down. The dishes are done or at least pushed aside. The children have gone to their rooms. The television is still on, but nobody is really watching it. You sit there for a minute longer than you need to because you are tired, but that is not the whole reason. You are also wondering whether anybody in the house understands what it took to get everyone through another day. This is the kind of moment I had in mind when I began thinking about Christian encouragement for unappreciated husbands and fathers , because the pain is not always loud. Sometimes it is just a good man sitting in his own living room, feeling like the least noticed person under his own roof. You may have spent the day answering calls, solving problems, working through pain, stretching money, picking someone up, fixing something that broke, or carrying worries you did n...