"When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul, discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness" (Proverbs 2:10-13).  I (Andy) love the Proverbs.  There is a wealth of truth and wisdom in them.  I especially love Proverbs like the one above; Proverbs that talk about the pursuit of wisdom.

Dads (and moms) it is our job/task to chase after wisdom, to embrace it, and through it to seek knowledge - not the knowledge of the mundane but rather the knowledge of God and of the things of God.  Interestingly, such wisdom and such knowledge can keep us (and our children) from evil things; perverse things; things of darkness.  This is a biblical proverb that I hold tightly to; one which I claim regularly in my prayers.  My daily prayer, "God please give me wisdom.  Give me wisdom to be a better husband.  Give me wisdom to be a better father.  Give me wisdom to be a better son, a better friend, a better minister - a better Christian.  Help me to teach my children to be wise in their daily discretion.  Please God give me wisdom."