When you first left home, you still had some growing up to do.

So do your children when they leave the nest.

Here's Susan Yates.

A wise thing that was said to us is remember they're young.

You know, we forget that because we relate to our adult children in so many ways as adults. We need to remember

they're young, and we need to grant them the grace and the freedom to grow up. Just hearing that

phrase, remember they're young, has alleviated a lot of pressure. This is Revive Our Hearts with Nancy Lee DeMoss.

It's Tuesday, September 16th.

Even if your kids are still young, you'll still get a lot out of our current series, Life Beyond the Emptiness, an interview with Barbara Rainey and Susan Yates.

Younger moms need to be thinking about this issue now, guiding their children toward adulthood from an early age.

Here's Nancy Lee DeMoss to introduce our guests and our topic.

Well, our young production crew on the other side of the studio here is very excited about

this discussion today, and some of them have our young parents, young dads, with little

children, and they're saying, our wives need to

be listening to this now so they can be prepared for the time when their children grow up and

leave the nest, which, by the way, is the goal.

Yes, that is the goal.

This is a biblical goal, by the way.

As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one's youth, Psalm 127.

And the goal is not to just keep those arrows, you know, in a pack by your side. The arrows do no

good in the battle if you don't release them. Sending them out to do God's work for God's kingdom,

for his sake, into a day and a generation that you may not live to see, but knowing that

...