Living The Grand Life Now

Your kids are now parents. Wow, you survived parenthood, now it's their turn. You think back on all the things you know now that you wish someone had told you when you started the whole parenting thing. But now it's different, the world isn't as safe as when you were a young parent with little ones and your kids have to deal with more complex challenges than you had.
Maybe they both work outside the home; kids going in different directions with after-school activities, perhaps they are single parents, or on top of being a parent, they are also students trying to keep pace with the ever-changing business world. Whatever the situation is, they are busier and more stressed than you or I were as young parents.
Why is it then, that some of these experienced women and men; “grand” mothers and “grand” fathers want to choose to pack up our bags, get behind the wheel of an RV and take off leaving behind the greatest opportunity to impact a generation with all the wisdom, knowledge, and experience we have accumulated over the years? What greater vessel to pour ourselves into than that of the hearts and minds of our grandchildren? God has not removed that nurturing spirit within us, in fact the Bible encourages us to speak into the lives of our children’s children. Proverbs 17:6 say that our children’s children are a crown to us. Psalm 78: verses 4-7 talks about telling the next generations about all that God has done; His power and miracles so that each new generation can have hope in God as they recall and remember His miracles and choose to obey Him alone.

If you are thinking that your kids don't need you, please reconsider and think of your grandchildren - whose lives desperately need the stability and unconditional love of a Grand - you!