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  • Hearing with the Heart

    “Grandma, I want to tell you something.” Your teenage granddaughter is staying with you. She trusts you. So you reply, “Sure, Susi, what is it?” “Promise you won’t tell mom or dad?” What do you say? She wants a promise. What if she tells you something you, or she, really should tell her parents? Sometimes…

  • Twice Broken

    Behind every grandchild loss, there is a grandparent whose heart is breaking twice. It breaks once for the grandchild and a second time for the mother or father, the grandparent’s own child. In addition, I believe the grandparent’s wave of grief often goes unseen in the tsunami of grief of the parents. Every parent wants…

  • The Fourth Quarter

    I know a grandfather who spends his time running a bible study on the campus of a nearby college. Wouldn’t he rather retire to Naples, Florida, and play golf, I thought? Actually, I asked him that! He replied, “I don’t know how much time is left but I know I am in the fourth quarter…