1. Listen to one story.
Hear where The Sacred Gap begins, with the question "What are you doing with your pain?"
Every intentional life begins with a first step.
I'm so glad you found your way here. Whatever brought you here today, I hope you find something meaningful and walk away with a few next steps to help you. Your longing to love your friends, family, and those around you well is good. It's also an invitation to go deeper into your own story. You can't give what you don't have. Start where you are. It's not a race.
Welcome
This is the welcome I recorded for people starting Guided Apprenticeship in the app. It's also my welcome to you.
Read the transcript
Welcome to The Intentional Dad. I am so glad that you found your way here. And whatever your specific reason for finding your way to The Intentional Dad, I’m going to guess that outside of that specific reason, there’s a general reason that you came that is something that all of us in this community share. And that is that there’s just something you feel, something that we might refer to as a gap.
A gap between how you show up to your family day-to-day and how you want to show up to your family and friends and loved ones on a day-to-day basis. A gap between how you’re experiencing life today and how you would like to be experiencing life.
And Jesus kind of had different ways of talking about that. One of the ways that is most memorable is he talked about abundant life, abundant life that we find through a healing journey, a life and a journey toward wholeness and freedom.
And it is one where the good news is, there is a way through that gap. And there is something to discover that, along the way, what we are defining as that abundant life, that wholeness and healing, is a very simple idea. Simple, scandalous, and incredibly profound. It is that you are loved, you belong, you’re chosen, and you have nothing to prove.
And again, I am so excited that you are here, eager to begin the journey.
A few next steps
These are good places for anyone to start. Want steps that fit you? Take two minutes to name your season of life, and I'll suggest a first step or two that meet you right where you are.
2. Read the first chapter, free.
The foreword, prologue and Chapter 1 of Aric's book. No email needed.
3. Begin the journey.
Start Awakening Desire, the first segment. It's free, at your own pace.
Hi, I'm Aric.
I'm Mary Jo's husband, and we've been married for 32 years. I'm a father of three and an apprentice of Jesus who learned the hard way. My life of mountain climbing finally failed me. The Intentional Dad is just a name for the story I'm living, the sonship story I'm living with Jesus. Like you, I'm still learning, still being fathered. I'm so glad you're here.
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A free, no-pressure conversation with Aric about where you are and how The Intentional Dad can support you in your apprenticeship with Jesus.