Rome wasn’t built in a day, and making smart financial decisions, and seeing the results of those decisions, won’t happen overnight either.
Experience is the best teacher—especially other people’s experiences. This is doubly true when it comes to finances. Skip other articles, but not this one! First, God wants you to “act smart” by applying knowledge, discernment, understanding, and wisdom to your finances. Second, life is too short to waste a ton of money.
John and Marie are selling their home. Tony is giving up politics. Ann is ridding her house of clutter. How could “subtraction” help you?
Here are a few suggestions to help you work through “grandparent grief.”
From hard economic times to health scares and everything inbetween, most of us have a lot on our plates, don’t we? Want to know the secret to staying confident, positive, and grateful?
If you are retired, and wondering what’s next, here are 7 ways God can use you to further the kingdom.
Retirement blogger Robert Fowler shares 6 ways Baby Boomers can be older and happier!
Finding out your child and their spouse are having a baby is exciting news. Chances are, you’ve been waiting for this moment for a while. It’s easy and normal to dream about all the time you will spend with them and what you want to do with them. It’s like your heart is full before they even arrive. However, as excited as you are for your first grandchild and as happy as your kids will be for your help, there are some things you need to do ahead of time. Here are some tips for preparing your lives and your hearts for your first grandchild.
The Bible does have a clear-cut plan for retirement. But for many of us, it is not at all what we’ve imagined.
While we made plenty of mistakes, here’s what I’ve learned over the years about how to pray (and not to pray) with grandchildren.
When we need wisdom on how to find peace, there is one place we can look to find the answers. We can look to Jesus. He gives us instructions on how to act so we can have quiet, simple lives. It’s not always easy, but it is possible to find the grace to muddle through conflicts that inevitably come up in our relationships. A hard truth we have to surrender to when bringing our relationships to Jesus is that he is the only one who can change our hearts.
Senior and seasoned women in the church hold such powerful blessings for younger women! Far too often, we are unaware of the life-changing blessing we can be to others. Just a handful of the right words can inspire hope and faith in a younger woman that spills over into her family and kingdom calling. Just the right words can safeguard a younger believer from struggles and temptation.
As we age, for many of us anything that involves change begins to look more and more like an unwelcome intruder. External life issues (i.e., the economy, health issues, Mother Nature, technology, etc.) have begun affecting the way we live and limiting our choices. All too often, we are prevented from things being the way we want them to be because of changes that are beyond our control.
These days, isolation is pretty much an epidemic. We’re more connected electronically than ever but still, we’re suffering with more loneliness. It’s strange.
Death leaves a void, a blank space, an immobile darkness. We are surrounded by the ghosts in our minds and speak to them there in the memories. But it seems so hopeless. They aren’t really there. As my mum says, you seemingly become just a photo on the wall.






