Your Actions Influence Those Around You

I asked a new elderly friend, “Have you ever been married?”

Without missing a beat, he said, “My dad was married five times. I watched the law run his life. I never wanted to bring the law into my life.”

What we do influence those around us. The point here is not that this guy should have been married or not. Marriage is a choice and there is nothing inherently right or wrong about getting married or remaining single. The point here is that his father’s experience with marriage shaped his own.

What if marriage and the law were not the problems? What if his dad’s approach to it was the issue? If that’s so, his dad’s screw up took away a serious option that his son could have considered as a way of living his life.

Your children are watching everything you do.

About the Author

Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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