Yes, I am especially blessed. Not only do Karen and I have four beautiful daughters in our natural family, but we've got a number of spiritual daughters as well. And of course we love them all.

As a father, I've considered it my duty to be appropriately protective of my daughters. We guys are built in such a way that when beautiful women walk by, our antennae tingle. So I've written a number of blogs detailing my strategies. For example: A dad's role with his daughter's suitors and Scaring your daughter's suitors.

It was all in good fun - I didn't want to scare them off; just wanted to make sure that my girls didn't get in the kind of relational jam I've seen take down so many young women. Our society is more broken than you may realize - for example, roughly a third of the girls showing up for World Race training have been sexually abused at some time in the past.

Anyway, at this point, I've mostly done my job as a dad. Maybe too well in fact. Because the proportion of girls to guys on a lot of our projects is about four to one, I feel some measure of responsibility for finding guys that will make those girls' dreams come true (not that they can't be very happy without men, mind you). My daughters and their friends are all in their twenties (the youngest, Leah, turns 20 in December). They are going to make some lucky guy very happy.  They will be the best thing that happened to him. And most importantly, Karen wants grandbabies.

So, how to advertise these amazing young ladies to the qualified young men out there? Hey men, beautiful, brilliant, funny, interesting, engaging women are available! Me and my wife have been working hard to make them wonderful for you! Come check 'em out - we'll take your applications! And, BTW, check out these other 22 amazing women and another 22 here - every one of them lovely and guaranteed to make you happy for life!

Yeah, I hear you, probably not the right angle. I've even thought about starting an on-line dating service. In fact, a staff member suggested it semi-seriously yesterday. This may not be such a bad idea. Once you've gone through a program like the World Race, for example, you've done a lot to pre-qualify your candidates. I don't know, I'm a man looking for help here. We need to put our heads together on this.

At AIM, we do everything we can besides implementing an affirmative action program to attract more guys on our projects. The guys who are in the market have a hugely unfair advantage given the guy/girl ratio. If anyone of you has any ideas about finding qualified guys, please let me know.

In tomorrow's blog, I'll share some thoughts for future sons-in-law.