965 archives posted by "grandparenting"

Grandparents with a Purpose: Effective Ways to Pray Effectively for your Grandchildren will make a great Christmas Gift for any grandparent. You may want it for yourself. I have been a grandmother for over 35 years. God has given me a passion for intentionally praying for my grandchildren, [...]

Grandparents can be great encouragers or cheerleaders when their grandchildren get discouraged, lack self-confidence, and low self-esteem. Many of our grandchildren are in an online school, some find it difficult, but others don’t mind it. They miss their friends and look forward to [...]

During this autumn season, I am reminded of my childhood, growing up on a wheat farm in Oklahoma. In the summer after the wheat harvest, my father would prepare the soil for the next year’s crop. In the autumn, he would sow the wheat seed. We would wait for the rains to water the seed, [...]

Many homes have pumpkins, autumn-colored mums on their doorsteps, and Halloween decorations in their yards. Children have a good time deciding who they will be and what they will wear as they trick or treating and, of course, eating their treats.  This year has been an unusual time for us [...]

We are going through a worldwide crisis of the coronavirus pandemic lockdowns, riots, earthquakes, wildfires, hurricanes, and chaos. It has been a time of uncertainty, frustrations, disappointments, and instability. The coronavirus has attacked every country in the world, with no end in [...]

I have been asking God to provide a way to translate the book into other languages. During the last year, God placed several native Spanish speakers in my life to translate the book into Spanish. I hope and pray Spanish readers will learn to pray intentionally for their grandchildren in this [...]

Our grandchildren’s parents have a great responsibility for parenting our grandchildren in these uncertain, unstable times in which we live. In today’s broken world, we see the family unit very fragile, living amid a busy and evil environment filled with many moral and spiritual [...]

Becoming a mother has been a rollercoaster of emotion, from the first positive test strip to now nineteen months into having my precious baby boy in my arms. I was instantly overcome with a feeling of fear and unpreparedness when I first discovered I was going to be a mother. I remember calling my [...]

In our culture today, we have become me-centered, basing our decisions on feelings. It seems like we are encouraged to listen to our emotions, allowing our feelings to dictate our prayer life. Our relationship with God cannot be based on our feelings. The foundation of our relationship must be our [...]

When we reach the midlife years of our lives, we look forward to becoming grandparents. We’re very excited when our first grandchild and each one is born. However, today, many grandparents have broken hearts because they have been estranged from their grandchildren for various reasons. I [...]