Day One on my Blog

I'm supposed to be packing. There's a bloody huge list to get through but instead I'm smoking, blogging, drinking coffee, and watching parrots.
PARROTS for gods sake!!!!!!!!!

I met a man today - a single dad. It never occurred to me just how isolating being a single male parent can be. He cant make friends with the mums at his sons school because the dads all think he's after their wives.
Kids cant play at his house or have sleep overs - simply because of our societies fear of the male in the house.
He listed a huge number of things that he doesn't do simply because he is a male. He just goes it alone.
A commendable man. He's raised his son since he was 12 months old - all alone.

It really made me think. What type of society are we that we can isolate a person so much simply because he has broken the mold. And yet here he is kissing his son goodbye at the school gate, providing for him, cleaning up after him and making sure he raises a good human being.
What is our reaction? We frown down on him - just because he is different.
What a waste. How many other men are out there is similar circumstances.

Hes given up so much just to be a good dad - and the Lord knows we need more of them, but we don't accept him at all.

We really are a senseless society.

Oh well - off to do some work. But if you read this - take the time to think about the way we treat others - and open the door a little wider.