I love being a Dad

This Father's Day weekend, we''ll hear a lot about how wonderful and important dads are, which is great. But as the very blessed father of these three cuties above, all I can say is, don't overdo it on the thanking. Yes, we appreciate your gratitude, but no, this isn't some arduous burden we take on heroically. Fatherhood is beautifully transformative, incredibly challenging and at times maddeningly hard, but a true joy, in the truest sense of the word. Any thanks I get I want to redirect toward God, who put these amazing little people in my life; to my wife, from whom they derive their sweetness; and to the three amazing little people themselves, whom I love more than I ever thought imaginable.

When my wife and I learned we were expecting our first, a wise friend (and dad) said, "People will tell you this will change your life, which it will, but what they don't say is that kids make you laugh every day."

And they do. Every hour, really. In children there is an innocence, a sweetness that reminds us of how life is really meant to be lived -- with excitement, wonder and awe. My kids get the biggest kick out of the simplest things, be it washing the car, taking out the trash or eating popcorn. Their young perspective reminds me to take nothing for granted, and to look for the good in all things.

There's a reason why Scripture tells us we must be like a child to enter the Kingdom of God, and that's because children are endowed with a sense of faith and trust that we, the hardened and cynical adults, spend decades trying to re-find. But my kids help me to re-find it. Every day. I love being a dad.

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there!