The vocation to marriage is written in the very nature of man and woman as they came from the hand of the Creator.

"But love, first learned in a lady’s eyes…"   Shakespeare, Love’s Labours Lost

"One could find no other association more necessary nor more pleasant than that of men and women." - Musonius Rufus

Even as a woman shapes the child growing within her, the joys and trials of pregnancy are shaping her, sanctifying her, and teaching her how to depend on others during this season of peculiar service.

Humans are, hands down, the single most fascinating set of creatures on the planet.  If you want to understand how humans work, just make a few, sit back, and watch them do their thing.

The Year of St. Joseph points us to Jesus' adoptive father, Joseph, as the essential model for fathers.

"Now to cultivate something is to devote one's attention to it. . .

Raising kids is hard work, but it's 10 times harder if they haven't learned to mind you — to do what you ask. 

As we all know, there is a crisis of fatherhood today.

This essay is excerpted and adapted from the author's book, Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living.