Traditions for the sake of tradition tend toward irrelevance. However, traditions rooted in meaning and purpose, when observed with intentionality and some measure of creativity, can be transformational. Advent is one of those traditions. It is also one often neglected or ignored. Today is the...
My friend Barb shared with me how her 97-year-old grandmother has influenced her life with prayer. “My grandmother prays for me by name as well as my husband, children and grandson every day. She has prayed specifically for us and claimed God’s promises, seeing many of her prayers answered....
“Your faithfulness continues through all generations.” Psalm 119:90a Grandparents love to boast about their grandchildren, ready to show their pictures to anyone who will look at them. Grandmothers used to carry “Brag Books” with them but they don’t need to do that any more since many...
Cavin Harper, CGN Executive Director If the statistics are accurate, then more than six million grandchildren (as of 2000) in this country are being raised by their grandparents with or without the parents in the home. This represents more than six percent of all grandparents at that time, and the...
Being a Grandparent of a Child with Special Needs Emily Pearl Kingsley wrote an article in 1987, called Welcome to Holland, about her journey as the mother of a child with disability. Essentially, it was about how being a parent of a child with disability is akin to planning a trip to Italy, only...
Three days after the crucifixion, the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene, Mary, Jesus mother, and the other Mary went to look at the tomb where Joseph of Arimathea had buried Jesus’ body. They wanted to anoint and embalm his body, as was the custom. At that, moment there was a powerful...
My friend, Peggy Powell sent me the following story in her “Praying Grandmothers” mailing.“Some years ago my friend, Sandy shared a prayer story that greatly encouraged me. Sandy prayed diligently for her son, Jim, all of his life, but as his teen years began tobud, she found herself travailing,...
by Charme FletcherIt will be three years ago this coming December that we watched our first and only (to this point) granddaughter be born into the world. Oh, what joy and love filled that birthing room! My husband and I had the wonderful privilege of being beside our daughter as she gave birth to...
I’ve asked permission from my friend, Ken Summers, former Colorado State Representative, pastor and Executive Director of Teen Challenge for the Rocky Mountains to share with you his perspective on a legacy of truth that we as grandparents ought to be leaving for another generation. I think...
He is not here; he is risen! Luke 24:6 While Easter bunnies and Easter egg hunts are fun, as grandparents other fun activities teach our grandchildren the true meaning of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I have been reading a book written by Janet Teitsort, “Long Distance Grandma.” It is...
“And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight,so that you may be able to discern what is best... “ Philippians 1:10 Our grandchildren are back in school. They may face many changes from their last school experience, such as new school, new...
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring ... (Isaiah 44:3)A grandparent's blessing is a special event for a child. More than just empty words, a real spiritual blessing can be a...
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