YOUNG PEOPLE ASK . . .Why Should I Get to Know My Grandparents?

An Interchange

While grandparents can offer you their wisdom and love, they can also benefit from your youthful energy and companionship.  How so? Well, there are likely a number of ways in which you can be of help and support to your grandparents. Oftentimes, their physical strength is fading. Or they may be battling ill health.  No doubt they would be encouraged if helped them with shopping and household chores.

Many grandparents are widows or widowers and feel lonely at times.  By taking such an active interest in them, you can do much to help them to combat feelings of loneliness and to maintain their zest for life. Doing so is one way to follow the Bible command that you "keep paying a due compensation to [your] grandparents, for this is acceptable in God's sight." -1 Timothy 5:4. 

No doubt about it, drawing close to your grandparents can enrich your life-as well as theirs!  Maybe you have not been close to them up till now. Perhaps you want to change that but are not sure where to start. It may be that your grandparents live far away or that your parents are no longer together and this has distracted you from your grandparents.   A future article will offer some practical suggestions on how you might deal with such situations. 

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From the Awake! magazine