Barbara Rainey says, when children leave home, it can affect moms and dads differently.

Well, it's part of the adjustment of the empty nest, is that so often our husbands are still

tracking in their career, and they may have another five or ten years left before they're

thinking about retirement. Sometimes husbands are also in a midlife crisis, and they're reevaluating, but oftentimes

it's not, and so we feel as women like all the adjustment is ours.

This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss for Friday, September 12th.

Music Yesterday, Susan Yates and Barbara Rainey began talking with Nancy Lee-Demoss about adjusting to new seasons of life.

We'll pick back up on that conversation with these authors of Barbara and Susan's Guide to

the Empty Nest. We'll start with a question from our audience. I'm at the very beginning of

Empty Nest. I have three children. Rachel is 27. She's married and has a baby. And then Chris is 24. He's in the Air Force. And Daniel is 21 and he's going to get married in two weeks. And so I have gradually felt the emptiness coming on. But I'm really starting to feel it now that in two weeks, our youngest will be married married. Are you planning your meltdown?

Well, you know, I don't know if I'm planning it,

but I am definitely starting to feel it a little bit

because where I am, I'm busy, I'm involved in ministry with a Bible study,

and I am very uncomfortable with my quiet, lonely times. I feel uncomfortable with it.

I don't feel content in it. And it will hit me blindsided and then I don't know what to do

with that. And so I am very much encouraged by this group of women here because it's so good to hear that it's okay to be

quiet. It's okay to lean into the Lord and listen because I'm one of those people that I'm doing

things all the time. What's the next thing? What's the next thing? And when I am at a time where

no one's home at Christmas Eve, which is going to happen this

Christmas for the first time ever, Phil and I are looking at each other and saying, what in the

world are we going to do? And there's a yearning, a feeling of sadness that I don't like,

so I want to run away from that. And so I need this group of women and people who've gone through

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