Christian Grandparenting Blog

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work”. John 4:34 In America, we like our food, and lots of it. Good food is not only enjoyable, but critical for nourishment and health. Still, this had to [...]

This morning as I was reading about a mission organization, which encourages retires to use their time wisely by sharing God’s love at home and abroad. The thought came to me that one way we can share God’s love with the world is by investing [...]

God blessed my husband and me with nine grandchildren ranging in age from seven to twenty-eight years of age. For many years, I felt my prayers for them were too general because, as a long-distance grandmother, I was often unaware of what was gong on [...]

Be your grandkids cheerleader. It is important for us to communicate our love to our grandkids. Send them a greeting card, email, give them a telephone call or you may want to text them, if they have a cell phone for Valentines Day. Grandkids love [...]

What does a “dog whisperer” have to do with effective grandparenting? Columnist Marcia Segelstein suggests in a 2009 article about the challenges facing today’s Christian parents that perhaps it has a lot to do with it. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by and at odds [...]

“A wicked messenger falls into trouble, But a trustworthy envoy brings healing.” Proverbs 13:17   Lord, I pray that You would allow my grandchild to faithfully deliver Your words of encouragement to those around him/her. Help him/her to see how speaking truth can heal a [...]

I grew up in a relatively small city in Wyoming where my father built a very positive reputation and name in that community. Almost anywhere I went as a young boy people knew my father and would say, “Oh, you’re Earl’s son!” Many years later [...]

“Hannah is not the primary character in the story. Nor is Samuel. Pivotal to the whole story, the central cohesive element, the linchpin, is God himself. Everything else—Hannah’s barrenness, Hannah’s prayer, Samuel’s birth—is the working out of God’s eternal agenda.”¹ In I Samuel 3:1 we [...]