Prologue

 

The world throws a lot at men — expectations, roles, pressure to be everything to everyone. Provider. Protector. Leader. Tough. Strong. The list never ends. But here's the truth: most of it doesn’t matter.

What does matter is this — a man doesn’t need to fit into every box society builds for him. He doesn’t have to chase someone else’s idea of who he should be. A man’s real task isn’t about titles or checklists. It’s about being who he truly is — no masks, no performances.

That might sound simple, but it’s one of the hardest things to do. Being real in a world that keeps telling you to be something else — that takes guts. It’s not always easy to accept, and not everyone will understand it. Sometimes, even the man himself struggles with it.

But there are no concrete tasks waiting for him. No rigid job position he was born to fulfill. Just this one thing: Be the man he was destined to be. Everything else is noise.

 

Men are often given identities based on Earthly concepts and not Spiritual truth. They can be viewed as too tough or too weak, too emotional or not emotional enough, there does not seem to be an in between and there can be such drastic judgements on who a man should be. The truth is a man should not be anything but "himself". Man was not put on Earth fit into a strict category but rather each man was put here to be who he is. For example, when we think of the Heavenly Father or Higher Power, some may say he provides, but a more accurate depiction maybe He is a Provider. This being about who he is, not what he does. Although these ideas can seem the same, identity is key.

 

The world can try to make it so difficult to be authentic that we can get confused by what is real and what is fake, what is truth and what lies but we must remember who we are. It is important to learn from what we do or even what we have done but it is imperative to know who we are and who we have always been throughout existence. ​

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A man has all the capacity to not only be lovers but to be love itself, so you are already loving just by being you. Men are not only creative but creation itself, so you are already creating. Men are not just providing but they are providers, and this is who they are simply by existing in life.

 

As a Man you are everything you need to be, 'made in the image of God.' There is nothing left to do but to "be yourself." This means you must know and study who self is. You may not have a specific "male" task to complete but you do have a responsibility and that is to be yourself and all that is yours. This responsibility is a part of you, as a man, a protector, a provider and the first to be made in the image of God. Self-Love can help you see the blinding effects of Self Hate. Once you can see yourself, only then can you see all that you are and all that is yours.

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