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The righteous flourished like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

They are planted in the house of the Lord. They flourish in the courts of our God. They still bear fruit in old age. They are ever full of sap and green. To declare that the Lord is upright, he is my rock and there is no unrighteousness in

him.

Psalm 92 12 through 15.

Well welcome back everybody to another episode of Bright hearth, and we have a topic that I think is one that has astonishingly few resources attached to it.

And it's one of those areas where I know I've regularly lamented. As a pastor. I think Lexi and I have both talked about this several times that

This is an area that needs more really good hands-on practical blue-collar attention and it's the area of grand parenting I suppose

grand parenting is that a word grand parenting being a grand-parent it's a word and

a vocation it It is. It is and our culture's not good at it.

No. We've lost this connection vitally between the generations I think and having shared goals,

right, a shared vision for what life should look like. And it's an area that I hear lots of younger families in the church kind of have lamented over the years that they feel a lack sometimes of

connection with their parents in raising their own young children now.

Yeah.

And so really in this episode there are two goals.

Let me just say first actually, the best possible person to hear from this topic on would be someone who had 60 years of Christianity under their belt,

believing grandchildren that were coming into adulthood,

leaving an inheritance to their children's children successfully,

and my friends, we are not that we are in our

thirties and so we're not larping in this episode I don't want you to hear us

like speaking as the seasoned we've had all this experience as grandparents.

We're self-consciously talking as 30-some things

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