Grandparent’s Day
This week I went to my very first Grandparent’s Day as a nana. It was a blast. My granddaughter is four years old and is in pre-school. Her class had a little celebration. If you’ve never seen a room full of four year olds do the Hokey Pokey, you haven’t lived.
My grandparents were such an important part of my life and now that it’s my turn, I hope I can do as good a job as they did. They were patient, kind, loving and supportive. I have so many wonderful memories of holidays spent with them in their homes, with lots of good food, fun and laughter. Both sets of grandparents attended the same little country church where my family attended. One grandmother died when I was very young, but the other three grandparents were with me through my formative years, and one grandmother lived to be eighty nine. All of them were Bible scholars and knew God’s word forwards and backwards.
Besides being a good example for me and my cousins, they were a support system for my parents. Unfortuunately many families today don’t have the blessing of having grandparents close enough to babysit.
Timothy, of course, is a Biblical example of someone who benefited from having a grandmother who had faith and wisdom.
- 2Ti 1:5 -
- I know that you sincerely trust the Lord, for you have the faith of your mother, Eunice, and your grandmother Lois.And what about Ruth and Naomi? Surely they were wonderful women of faith for Obed and future generations.
- Ru 4:17 -
- The neighbor women said, “Now at last Naomi has a son again!” And they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse and the grandfather of David.
Now that I am (ahem) an older woman, the Bible tells me that….
Sometimes we find ourselves wanting to do less in the church as we get older, but I don’t think that’s what God intended. The older we get, the more people we have looking to us to set an example.
I hope I can lead others to Christ and I hope I can be as good an example for my granddaughter, as my grandparents were for me.
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