As a mother and grandmother, Janie Ortland believes in compound interest.

I think investing in children is a little bit like a retirement account where you continually put deposits in and you try very hard not to move it around a lot, not to withdraw anything unless it's absolutely necessary.

You just keep putting in the deposits and eventually it grows and grows and grows and grows and bears fruit. This is the

Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamoo, author of Choosing Forgiveness for Friday, July 14th, 2017.

As moms, we need to hear godly wisdom from other moms who have gone before us.

All this week, we've experienced that kind of investment from Janney Ortland.

She's talked with Nancy about missional mothering.

A group of friends have joined us in the studio to listen along.

Let's listen as they share thoughts and questions with Jenny Ortland.

Here's our first guest. I have two boys and I have two

grandsons. One of my sons is married and they all have deserted us for other areas of this country

like Montana. So I am a long distance, grandma, which is a huge, huge challenge. And I think after I got done whining to the Lord

that my children and grandchildren were gone, he provided someone in our area that her parents

or his parents are not there. And so kind of adopted me as their grandma, and they have four

girls. And God has also let me know their grandma, and they have four girls.

And God has also let me know how grateful I am that I had boys and not girls.

Janie, as I listen to some of these women, I'm thinking of Timothy in the New Testament.

Yes.

Who had a similar situation.

And grandmother raised him. Yes, his dad was not a believer.

And there his mother and his grandmother invested in him.

And Paul says, taught you the scriptures.

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