Calling All Mama's Boys

Proverbs Daily Podcast · Aug 31, 2026 · 3m

Proverbs 31:1

“The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.”

Calling all Mama’s boys!

I’m a Mama’s boy to the bone—and I say that publicly as a grown man who considers himself a manly man.

Fellas, loving your mama doesn’t make you less of a man. It means recognizing the woman who helped make the man.

My story goes deeper than I can tell here.

My father came home from Vietnam 100% disabled, carrying wounds from war and wounds that began long before it. I was the first of his children he physically and sexually abused.

He was wounded—and he wounded me. But it didn’t…