How Can Grandparents Become Mentors? by Susan Day

   The Love of Grandparents and Their Changing Role

   Wanting to be loved and to love in return is a natural human endeavour. We often romanticise about meeting the person of our dreams, and dedicating our lives to them.
   When we become parents we discover there’s a new kind of love which envelops our hearts. Fast forward a couple of decades, and we find that becoming a grandparent offers us a whole new understanding of what love means.
   Whether you are a grandparent or you have special memories of your own, it’s important to acknowledge what a special bond grandparents share with their grandchildren.

Spoilers and Coddlers

   Many grandparents see themselves as having the right to spoil their grandchildren. They also feel an overwhelming desire to coddle and protect them. 

   However, I’d like to suggest that grandparents could play a more significant role. Let’s face it, never before in the history of the world have grandparents had so much time on their hands. Some are also wealthier than ever before and they have access to the internet, and all the resources it offers.

   Perhaps grandparents could use the love they share with their grandchildren and play a greater role in improving each other’s lives.

  Grandparents as Mentors

   Children need as many good role models as they can get. In today’s technologically driven world they can be exposed to many terrible things. As well, parents are very busy with financial pressures resulting in them working longer and later. 
   At this time grandparents can play a significant role not just as babysitters, but as mentors who can offer advice and guidance to their troubled grandchildren.

   How Can Grandparents Become Mentors?

   To become a mentor each grandparent needs to feel empowered to make a change in their grandchildren’s lives. They should be stepping up and planning activities where they can spend quality time; creating memories which last a lifetime.
   Grandparents need to find out as much as they can about the technology their grandchildren are using. This way they will be forewarned about the dangers. It is also a great opportunity for them to learn what their grandchildren are interested in.
   Spending time with their grandchildren leaves time and space to talk and discuss issues. A walk to the park or a trip to the shop for an ice-cream offer wonderful opportunities whereby grandparents can learn more about their grandchildren.

   Being a grandparent is no longer a passive role. With all the added rights and privileges afforded to them, it is a wonderful time to have a positive impact in their lives of those they love most.

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About My Guest - Susan Day

   Susan Day is an author of 15 books, educator, and a content marketer. Her blog, Astro’s Adventures Book Club, is full of ideas and tips for grandparents who want to build a strong relationship with their grandchildren. In particular, Susan specializes in helping grandparents share their love of books with their grandchildren. Susan is currently writing a book titled, "The Top 10 Things Happy Grandparents Never Regret Doing!"

   Susan lives in country Australia with four dogs, three boss cats, three rescue guinea pigs, and an errant kangaroo. And, apart from blogging, writing and reading; she loves drinking coffee, painting and learning to box.

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This is What Tomorrow Will Bring

   Who said nobody see tomorrow?
   Sit down and contemplate to see tomorrow,
   You can see tomorrow if you are well versed and wise enough,
   Don't you still see what tomorrow is?
   It's simple, it is the day of your death.

   Who said nobody knows what tomorrow will bring?
   Tomorrow will bring your end, and you will die tomorrow.
   Then you will be risen up again,
   And be burn for days in hell if you have no love in Jesus Christ.
   But you will inherit eternal life if you keep the Ten Commandments and follow Jesus Christ.

   Since you are going to die tomorrow but raised up to stand before judgment,
   Live your today according God who created you.
   Life is short tomorrow is coming.
   Enjoyment is short punishment is dangerous and long,
   So, enjoy today according to God to escape His punishment tomorrow.

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Poem: Will You Save Your Future Children?

   Will you send your children,
   Where sickness and diseases fill the air,
   Where they have to toil for food and shelter,
   Where their friends ask them to take drugs and alcohol, and scammers trying to deceive them, 
   Where the leaders call them to take up weapons to defend and wage war?

   Will you send your children,
   Where the law of God is broken and hard to follow,
   Where the young are tempted to sin and they often fall to it,
   Where it is hard to be true and where they have to suffer in obeying God,
   Where they have sex without marriage and awaits to be burned for days in hell?

   Will you send your child,
   Where you can't give guarantee that your children will not fall into sin and hell,
   Where you can't be sure that your children will be faithful in the faith and will not be punished,
   Where you have no power to make them choose to follow the narrow and hard path which few people follow,
   Where you yourself are not sure that you will be saved from the punishment of hell and inherit eternal life?

   If you want to apply your power that your children will not suffer the sickness and hardness of this world,
   If you so love your children and want to be sure that your children will be blameless and will not fall into sin,
   If you want to guarantee that your children will be faithful in the Lord and will not go to hell to be burn for days,
   There is only one way, and that is, don't send your children in a cursed world. In other words, don't have children.

   After knowing all those things, don't have children and say I love you my children.
   You have not love your children.
   If you have love your children you will not send them to a place where they have to make hard choice.
   As for me, I cried after I know that it is better for me to see and send them not in this broken world,
   I cried as I desire to see my children so much but that I should not.

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Psalm's Prophecy of the Second Messiah

   Here are two Psalm chapters that prophesy about a measiah. It is not yet fulfilled for it is about a second messiah (meaning second christ - second annointed) who is to come to pass in this world.

   Psalm 2
  1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
  2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his anointed, saying,
  3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
  4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
  5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.
  6 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
  7 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
  8 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
  9 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.
  10 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
  11 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
  12 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.

   King James Version (KJV)


   Psalm 45
  1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
  2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
  3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
  4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
  5 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
  6 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
  7 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
  8 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
  9 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
  10 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;
  11 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.
  12 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.
  13 The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.
  14 She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
  15 With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.
  16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.
  17 I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.

   King James Version (KJV)

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What You Should Do To Have Eternal Life

   It is Very Clear, But We Often Miss To See It.

   One man ask Jesus "What should I do to Inherit eternal life?"
   Jesus Christ replied, "Keep the Ten Commandments, that is don't commit adultry, don't murder..., sell all that you have, give to the poor and follow Me. (Mat 19: 16 -21, Mar 10: 17 - 21, Luk 18: 18 - 22)

   The man understood that Jesus was saying about the Ten Commandments. 

   Yes, when Jesus mention one of the Ten Commandments He was saying the all of the Ten Commandments as it is written on James 2:10 that who break one of the law breaks all. 

   Brothers and Sisters do you first keep the Ten Commandments and follow Jesus?
   Do you believe/accept the way which Jesus said in order to have eternal life? If you don't accept it do you know where you are going?

   Do you want to have eternal life or you want to go to hell?

   If you want to have eternal life just accept what Jesus said.

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Poem: International Model

   You are an International model,
   Blameless from head to toes.
   Who will say you are ugly?
   Even the gods will fall in love with you.

   Desirable is the place where you dwell,
   For they will often see the most beautiful girl in the World.
   Blessed are the womb that bore you and the father who raised you up,
   For they have given birth to and raised up a Star.

   Lucky are your brothers and sisters,
   Because they live with top Super Model.
   Lucky are your friends,
   Because they dance with the Moon.

   Rich is the world,
   For we are given an Angel like being.
   You are the greatest Diamond in the Earth,
   Even the rich will desire to possess you.

   How luckiest you are in the Universe?
   You are the dream of the people of all the nations.

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Poem: There is No Love At First Sight or Love Marriage

   There is no love at first sight,
   But want at first sight, my friend.
   It is the beauty that you want,
   Because you have an eye to see,
   And a heart to feel it.
   Close your eyes and you will know,
   She is as black as the ugly girl you think.

   There is no love marriage,
   But desire based marriage, my dear.
   It is the sex that you want,
   Because you have an inborn sex desire,
   That compels you to get married.
   Take out your sex desire and you will know,
   Why eunuch do not get married.

   Love have no sight and desire,
   But it is good intention and action toward every soul, my love.
   You will know it when you are blind and become an eunuch.
   And you will see love goes out toward every creatures without any favouritism,
   And treated them equally as you would do to yourself.
   Then you will realize that you always have the choice to keep alive the love in you.
   Are you a lover?

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