by Lois Breneman - Copyright 2010 - Heart to Heart
Our grown children and grandchildren need our love and time, so let's put balance into our busy schedules, and get back on those rocking chairs to rock the little ones when we are needed and spend time with the older grandchildren as well!
As busy as we all are, we can be Titus 2 women, available to mentor and encourage younger women in so many various ways. The Lord nudged my heart to do this early in 1999, when He began Heart to Heart. When we stop to think about it, most all of us would fit into the "older woman" category. We can almost all find at least one younger woman to encourage! I find that most younger women yearn for older women to walk along side of them and help guide them, drawing from our experience.
Our grown children and grandchildren need our love and time, so let's put balance into our busy schedules, and get back on those rocking chairs to rock the little ones when we are needed and spend time with the older grandchildren as well!
As busy as we all are, we can be Titus 2 women, available to mentor and encourage younger women in so many various ways. The Lord nudged my heart to do this early in 1999, when He began Heart to Heart. When we stop to think about it, most all of us would fit into the "older woman" category. We can almost all find at least one younger woman to encourage! I find that most younger women yearn for older women to walk along side of them and help guide them, drawing from our experience.
My heart smiles when I think of my Aunt Marian in Pennsylvania, who often encouraged and mentored me, as I babysat her four children many times. She also laughingly tells me how I crashed her sixteenth birthday party the evening I was born at home. She tells how my mother called Grandma that evening, and said she was having labor pains and to come quick! Grandma was a nurse, and a doctor was also going to be there for my birth. But Grandma left Aunt Marian's birthday party that evening in March to give moral support to her oldest daughter in a time of need and help me enter the world! Aunt Marian has since forgiven me for that, and we love sharing the same March birthday!
Aunt Marian was also more recently a mentor to young women in M.O.P.S., Mothers of Preschoolers, in her senior years, at a time when many older women think it's time to "have their turn" to do what they so desire. One blessed young woman whom Aunt Marian mentored was Julie Druck. My aunt also told Julie about the Heart to Heart Newsletter sent by her niece, and Julie subscribed. After receiving Heart to Heart for a year and corresponding with me on occasion, Julie realized she could also send a newsletter to encourage other women. She wrote to tell me how the Lord gave her a nudge as well, and I've enjoyed receiving her e-mail newsletter, A Heart for Home, for quite a few years now! So I like to think of Julie's newsletter as an "offspring" of Heart to Heart! ((Smile))
You will see a fun activity in this blog (Categories - Science Experiments), written by Julie, to do with your children or grandchildren, whether you homeschool them or not. We all teach, even if we think we are not teachers. I've used many of Julie's ideas with my grandchildren, and she has been a frequent contributor to this newsletter through the years.
You will see a fun activity in this blog (Categories - Science Experiments), written by Julie, to do with your children or grandchildren, whether you homeschool them or not. We all teach, even if we think we are not teachers. I've used many of Julie's ideas with my grandchildren, and she has been a frequent contributor to this newsletter through the years.
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