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I recently received an email from a grandmother who asked me to pray with her because she was estranged from her granddaughter. Her heart was broken, and she was having a very difficult time dealing with the situation–not an uncommon experience for  many grandparents today. In the mid-life of our lives, it’s perfectly normal to look forward to becoming […]

“Whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.”  Matt. 18:5 Effective parenting and grandparenting demands intentionality.  Each day we stand at a crossroads and must choose the path we will walk—the one marked by my agenda or the one determined by God’s agenda. That was the challenge God laid before His

“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones.”  Matt. 18:10 Orphan Trains transported nearly 200,000 destitute children, mostly from Boston and New York, to families across America between 1854 and 1929. They were mostly immigrant children who had been orphaned, abandoned or neglected by their families. When they arrived at

GRANDPAUSE: He is truly great who is little in his own eyes and makes nothing of the highest honor.  -Thomas à Kempis The teacher asked the class to name one important thing we have today which we didn’t have ten years ago. Susie’s hand darted up. Her enthusiastic reply was, “Me!”  Can you imagine our

A call is going out to all grandparents who believe in the power of prayer to join grandparents throughout the world in making National Grandparents Day on September 11, 2016 a Day of Prayer for our grandchildren. Nations worldwide are under attack educationally, socially, financially and spiritually like never before. Christianity is under assault and parents and grandparents

When it comes to my Top Five To-Do List of things I do with my grandchildren, three of these things are no-brainers: listen to them, have fun with them, and tell them I love them. All important things. All essential things. But the top two things on my list are the most important. These are

Grandparents have opportunities to do and say things simply because we are grandparents. In my two previous posts I shared my Top-Five Things on my Grandparents To-Do List. I began with #5: Listen to Them; and #4 Smile, Laugh and Play… complete with generous amounts of hugs, kisses and snuggles. Now for the #3 thing on

As grandparents, we obviously all know there are things we do and say because we are grandparents, which we would not do or say if we were not grandparents. In my previous post I shared with you the #5 thing on my Grandparents To-Do List . . . Listen to Them. Today I’m thrilled to