How to get the Great back in front of Grandparent

Let me see if I can write this next sentence understandable.  What the world needs are great Grandparents, Great Grandparents, and Great, Great Grandparents.  If there were ever a need for wise, discerning, and committed leadership in the American family it is now.  It is not easy to be a solid senior citizen, life grows increasingly hard with every passing year.  Physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual trials are not only magnified and intensified but are borne by us in our years of seeping away, our stamina in all areas decreasing.  There is an old custom in the country church, now forgotten in these more enlightened times, one which can serve us seniors as we undertake our roles of Patriarch and Matriarch of our families; Rededication.  This custom was applied when an examination of one’s spiritual life revealed a need for a new start, a strengthening of one resolve to live out God’s call, and an acknowledgment that only Christ can so abide in us giving us His stamina.  This Christmas, this Christmas morning, December the 23, 2021 I have Rededicated.  God’s first job for Christ in me?  Call my children to their on Rededication to call their children to their on Rededication—Betty’s and my, 10 grandchildren.  The point, only God can add the great in front of Grandparent!

 

Taking our grandchildren to see the graves 
of their Grandsaints that have gone before.