Spotlight Series: Private reward or public recognition

For weeks leading up to father's day and now, a day after.  I searched my head and heart for a special way to acknowledge and thank my partner, CP.  (Really, they should call blogging birthing it can be a really exhaustive process this working out an idea).  

I was fortunate enough attend the University of Oklahoma. A truly rewarding endeavor  for many different reasons: love, experience and self-discovery, to name a few.  While there i became as much of a football fan as i'm ever going to be so much so i traveled to see a few games.  One of them, a Texas A&M game.  While there i was introduced to the tradition of the Twelfth Man. 

...he stood ready for duty in the event that the eleven men on the gridiron needed assistance. That spirit of readiness for service, desire to support, and enthusiasm helped kindle a flame of devotion among the entire student body; a spirit that has grown vigorously throughout the years. The entire student body at A&M is the Twelfth Man, and they stand during the entire game to show their support. The 12th Man is always in the stands waiting to be called upon if they are needed...

Some days during the early years when the days and nights all run together, the illusion of one looooong day created, realized and experienced one time too many.  The strength of a partner who decides to be get-their-hands-out-their pockets and get-them-into-the game is life-changing.  Defining, in fact.  

In the way of the tradition of the Twelfth man, the love of my life, the father of our beautiful children, is not one for public recognition.  He prefers, instead, the private rewards that comes from providing the quite calm of certainty.  Certainty produces a quality of courage, character and capacity that ultimately defines one's purpose, point and path. 

As you read the words below ask yourself which one are you in it for and who is your audience: public reward  or private recognition.

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Until next time...