GRANDPARENTs DO HAVE A ROLE TO PLAY

In today's culture, parenting is an exceptionally challenging job for  young couples.What a blessing it can be for them when grandparents--whether living nearby or far away--are involved in their lives and their children's.  We cannot deny that our role as grandparents often stretches us beyond our capability. We can also testify heartily that building relationships with grandchildren can be a genuine gift from heaven.

The special relationship between a grandparent and a grandchild is entirely different from the bond that exists between a parent and a child.  Grandparenting, in comparison to the role of parenting, is a grand time of life.

As grandparents, we can bring  a deep sense of stability and security in the home. It is meaningful for grandchildren to know that they are loved and accepted by others in addition to their parents.  When we profess a faith that is real and personal, our influence on young lives is even more powerful.  The perceptive little eyes of our grandchildren are watching closely and taking in everything about us.  Our living testimony of faith can leave a profound imprint on their minds and hearts.

In God's eyes you may play a more vital role in God's greater plan than what is presently visible. God set us in families and you are a part of yours for a divine purpose.

GOD'S DESIGN FOR FAMILY

                                 God's Design for family


In many ways, families have strayed from the benevolent design of our heavenly Father.  We live in an age when courts, lawmakers, and social reformers presume to define what makes up a family.  But the reality is that the structure of a family was God's design in the first place.  After God created Adam, He declared that it was not good for man to be alone.  So, God created a companion for Adam, a helpmate--women--taken from man's side.  Children were added to Adam and Eve, husband and wife, as a blessing upon what God had already created as good.

With an agenda to destroy what the Lord has declared good, Satan has been out to destroy families ever since Adam's fall in the garden of Eden.  God's love for families, however, could not be thwarted.  God was determined to pour out His covenant blessings upon families--a covenant that would cost Him His own beloved Son.

We believe that the Lord wants to restore the foundation of strong families for His glory! His design has been for families to care for one another across the generations--to learn from one another-- to be knit together and to be sanctified together.  Along with the obvious challenges, the joys and blessings of transgenerational families "doing life" together are becoming lost, in many cases.

I would like to leave  you with this thought: " We cannot deny that our role as grandparents often stretches us beyond our personal comfort zone especially when we are tried!"