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Jim Rohn once famously said, \u201cWe are the average of the five\npeople we spend the most time with.\u201d There is wisdom in this statement. It is\ntrue that the people we spend time with influence who we are and who we become.\nAnd it is important to choose wisely the community we keep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in my case (and I\u2019d guess in countless others), I have never found his statement to be entirely accurate. My friends influence me and my choices\u2014no doubt. But my life is not a reflection of the five people I spend the most time with.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My life is a reflection of the men and women who shaped me from a young age. They have had the greatest and most significant impact on the man I have become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I thought I\u2019d take a moment today to tell you about some\nof them. Specifically, the men who made me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are three:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Becker, Father<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My dad is a banker with a mind for numbers, a heart for\nloyalty, and a disciplined spirit. He grew up on a family farm in South Dakota,\nreceived a Finance Degree in Agricultural Lending from Northern State\nUniversity in Aberdeen, SD where he met my mom. My parents, my siblings, and\ntheir kids all live there still. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through hard work, determination, honesty, character, and a\nknack for ag-lending, he has worked his way up the banking ladder position-by-position\u2014always\nremaining true to his passion for the farmer and their livelihood. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father taught me about work and career, but also\ncommunity and volunteering. From the moment I was old enough to notice, he has\nalways found opportunity to serve\u2014School Board, Church Treasurer, Kiwanis, just\nto name a few. He served the community and he served our family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have vivid memories of my father sitting on a stool at our kitchen counter, working on a project for the bank or the church. I learned to appreciate the value of a hard day\u2019s work from him, no doubt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But equally important, I have countless memories of being in the backyard playing catch,\u00a0on the street learning to ride my bike, or being together watching the Minnesota Twins on television. He always found time for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My father has always been faithful to my mother and faithful\nto God. He has always been, and continues to be, a positive role model of\ngiving, loving, and serving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harold Salem, Maternal\nGrandfather<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

I named my son after my grandpa. Not Harold (his first name\nwasn\u2019t even in the running), but we named him Salem\u2014taken from my grandfather\u2019s\nlast name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandpa is 97 years old. He still works 50+ hours\/week as a pastor on radio and television<\/a> all over the world. He preaches from the Bible and answers countless letters from his desk. His love for people knows no bounds. For that heritage, I am eternally grateful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He and his wife Beulah were married for 59 years before she passed away on Christmas Eve, 2005. All these years later, and there is not a day that goes by that my grandfather doesn\u2019t think about my grandmother. He has told me this, and as often as he speaks of her, I know it to be true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandfather came to age during the Great Depression\u2014on a\nfarm eventually foreclosed upon during troubled times. He knows of history and\nchange and may be one of the most intelligent men I have ever met. His\nunderstanding of people, the world, and evolving decades has resulted in\nwisdom. Wisdom I have leaned on heavily in forming my own worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandfather, on more than one occasion, gave his last\ndollar to another in need. And yet, he faithfully provided for his family\u2014my\nmother and three siblings. He taught me that work is fulfilling, and the best\nwork is one that improves the lives of others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A documentary about his life, The Heart of a Shepherd<\/em><\/a>, was completed in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arnold Becker, Paternal\nGrandfather<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

My eyes well up with tears whenever I happen to hear Paul Harvey\u2019s So God Made a Farmer<\/em><\/a>. Because I know, firsthand, how well it accurately describes the life of those who feed us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandpa farmed his entire life\u2014on a family farm in South\nDakota that has since passed to his son (my uncle) and will soon pass to his\nson (my cousin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Harvey describes the life of a farmer this way during\nthe speech: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

God said, “I need somebody strong enough to clear trees and heave bails, yet gentle enough to tame lambs and wean pigs and tend the pink-combed pullets, who will stop his mower for an hour to splint the broken leg of a meadow lark. It had to be somebody who’d plow deep and straight and not cut corners. Somebody to seed, weed, feed, breed and rake and disc and plow and plant and tie the fleece and strain the milk and replenish the self-feeder and finish a hard week’s work with a five-mile drive to church.\u201d So God made a farmer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

If you have a farmer in your family tree, you know as well\nas I do, truer words have rarely been spoken. That was my grandfather. Up at\ndawn, work all morning, lunch in the small farmhouse with his wife, before\nheading back out to tend to the fields and animals in the afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

My grandfather taught me the importance of farming and a\nsteady hand\u2014that the hardest working hands in America are often the dirtiest,\nand sometimes the poorest. My maternal grandfather worked behind a desk, my\npaternal grandfather behind the steering wheel of a tractor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From beginning to end, and in all aspects of his life, he\nlived with uncompromisable integrity. He was faithful to his wife. He was\ncommitted to his children. I never knew him to sacrifice his character for an\neasy dollar or a worldly pleasure. He hid no secrets. He valued his integrity\nabove everything else. And he lived in such a way that should never go\noverlooked or unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a world that has seen far too many lives disgraced and families destroyed by the sins of the father\u2026 I am eternally grateful and infinitely blessed to have a grandfather who taught my father those same life lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am, by no means, a self-made man. None of us are, really.\nWe all stand on the shoulders of generations past. It is their accomplishments,\nsacrifice, and legacy that have laid the foundation for our lives today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am grateful today for the men who made me. It is my hope\nthat my life will be as honorable as theirs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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