Parenting is a lifelong job, even when grown children are living their own lives. Supporting adult children can take many forms, from financial support to childcare help to the emotional safety of a loving family. What do your adult children need from you?
Mother’s Day isn’t exclusively to mothers, but to those who are proactive in the responsibility of “mothering” as this author points out. Whether you fluffed a pillow or whispered bedtime prayers, the “mothering” duty is one we should all be grateful for.
Years after his mother’s death, one Guideposts staffer discovered a beautiful reminder of her love—and her sense of humor.
A mother’s heartbreak echoes a situation that God knows intimately.
Carmen Escamilla dreamed of her children becoming well-educated, prosperous professionals. Her son Cande tried to accomodate her wishes by going to law school—until the day he decided to pursue another path.
As Guideposts blogger Julia Attaway endures a mother’s worst nightmare, a child’s life-threatening illness, she hands over her grief to God.
His high-tech career couldn’t have been more different from his father’s life as a Kansas farmer. But some lessons always apply…
Michelle Cox says it’s the unexpected details that need special prayer.
Even now with children all grown up, the prayers continue.
I’d always taken pride in being strong, no matter what life threw my way. Then life tossed my son’s deployment at me.
“Anxiety stirred within me,” writes guest blogger Marci Seither, “but it dissipated when I saw the look on his face. Pure love. Just like the Lord feels for us.”
This father-daughter duo will steal your hearts with their antics and dance moves.
