PODCAST TRANSCRIPT | Episode 101: CONNECTING OLDER MOMS AND YOUNG MOMS
FROM OUR HOME TO YOURS w/ Nancy Campbell
EPISODE 101: CONNECTING OLDER MOMS AND YOUNG MOMS
Pam Fields joins me today as we talk about young women who long for a mentor, and many older women who don't know how to connect with young mothers. Pam has a vision to bring them together. Join in to hear her vision. She also speaks about the powerful BLESSING PRAYER they have prayed over their children throughout their lives, and it now continues to the next generation.
Announcer: Welcome to the podcast, From Our Home to Yours, with Nancy Campbell, founder and publisher of Above Rubies.
Nancy Campbell: Another podcast comes to you. And today I have a dear friend, Pam Fields, with me. Pam comes from Oregon. She's a mother of nine children, and a grandmother.
Actually, Pam has done two podcasts with me before. This podcast is number 101, but she did podcasts 31 and 32, so if you didn't hear then, you can go back and find out more about Pam and her wonderful family of nine children. And I notice, Pam, you're wearing your prayer bracelet.
Pam Fields: I have them on today.
Nancy: Good on you. And in one of those podcasts, she tells about how to make prayer bracelets, and how she has one for each child. Actually she could quickly tell it again, because although you heard about it before, it's such a marvelous idea. I'd love you to share it again.
Pam: Sure. At one of the retreats, Nancy spoke about how important it is to be praying for our children. If we're not praying for our children, then who'll do it? And that we really can't be leaving the covering of prayer to other people to do for our children, but we need to be bringing forth them.
But I get distracted, I get busy, I have so many to take care of, and things that are pulling me. Sometimes I'd start at the top and work my way down through their ages. Halfway through somebody would pull me aside, and I'd forget where I was.
Sometimes I'd start at the bottom and work my way up. Or just pray for the squeakiest wheel. I felt like I just wasn't doing full duty to cover my children, all of them, in prayer. And my husband too.
I thought I had to figure out a way to keep track of what I was doing. So I came up with the idea of a little stretchy nylon, simple, from Walmart, plastic. And I put on alphabet beads with the names of each of my children.
I'd start out in the morning with them on my left wrist, and as I remember to pray for them throughout the day, either in a concerted effort, or randomly, when I finished praying for one, I moved their bracelet with their name to my right arm. Then I don't lose track. And by the end of the day, then I know, if I still have names on my left arm, then my work, true work, for the day is not completed.
Nancy: Yes!
Pam: If the laundry's done, the dishes are done, but if I still have names on my wrist, the real work isn't done. So it's just a good visual reminder for me.
Nancy: And if you want to know a little more, how to make them, well, you can go back to the earlier podcast. I think it's wonderful.
And Pam, whenever I'm with you, you're always coming up with new visions, and new ideas, and new thoughts. That's why I just love to talk with you. Lately you've had another burden, because now you're not really a younger mom, or a middling mom. You're an older mom, you're a grandmother now too.
There are seasons in life, aren't there? We go through seasons. If you're a young mom with your little ones all around you, this is the season. It will never be like this again. Even if you keep having children, because these little ones you have now, they will get bigger. Your next season, you will have helpers. And then the seasons continue to grow, and then you have older children. Then you get married children. It's so amazing. Motherhood is so incredible. It never stays the same.
If you’re bogged down now and say, “Oh, how can I ever keep doing it?” No! It's not going to stay the same. It's a season. It's going to be different. It just grows, and enlarges, and gets better all the time.
Pam: And easier! Easier all the time.
Nancy: Yes! Easier! The more children you have, the easier it gets! Because you have more helpers. That's the thing that so many young mothers don't realize, isn't it? Oh, they think they just can't get past these one, two, or three children, and they're doing everything for them.
But my, if you have more children, you're not doing everything for them, because they're playing with their brothers and sisters. They can help the little ones. Oh, it gets easier and easier, doesn't it? And more exciting all the time.
Well anyway, tell us about your latest burden that you have. You were telling me about how there's so many older moms that have so much to share. How do they connect with young moms?
Pam: Sure. I was thinking specifically. I'm very close to 48. I, myself, I feel like technology is such a challenge for me. It's a lot to navigate. But I'm learning it.
I was talking with my mother-in-law, who's in her mid-seventies. She has so many great ideas, and so much mentoring in her. I was thinking about her, and other grandmas, who just have this wealth of wisdom.
But I feel like there's a disconnect between this older generation like probably anybody like me, mid-forties up through the latter years, that they have so much to give to mentor the young moms. But they're having a hard time meeting the young moms. Maybe they don't feel permission to speak into the lives of young moms.
But on the other end, I see young moms who really have a burden on their hearts for, like, “Somebody teach me to mother. Show me what to do.” Like, when you're cooking, some just freestyle it. And they can just jump in and make things happen. Others need a recipe.
I was somebody, as a young mom, who needed a recipe. I needed to have point A, point B. This is first step, second step. I hadn't really caught a vision for what is a mom, besides diapering and feeding the child, until I got ahold of your book, The Power of Motherhood. It sat, and broke it down into some reasonable goals, and a greater vision for what is a mother.
Though I couldn't do every single thing of those things at one time, I could take, “OK, I'm having an issue with this,” or “I need to learn this, I need to understand this.” It gave a point to then grow from.
I think that a lot of times we just need to find a way to connect this younger generation that have the same questions that I do, with the older generation. But sometimes it's just so hard to do. So I think what we're going towards is what I was talking about. I have a blog that's been going for about a year.
Nancy: TendingFields.net?
Pam: Yes, TendingFields.net.
Nancy. So if you want to listen to Pam's blog, I mean, read it...
Pam: Yes, read it, read it.
Nancy: Yes, read her blog, TendingFields.net.
Pam: So anyway, I've been writing there for about a year. I'm new to it, and I'm learning, I'm thinking. What I found is, first you have the blog, but then you have to add an Instagram and a Facebook page. Through the Facebook and Instagram, you send people to the blog to read your teaching or your advice.
Sitting there talking to my mother-in-law, and I thought, she's got so much to give. She was just laying a bunch of things out. I finally said, “Stop. Don't tell me anymore. Go inside. Write it down. I don't want to forget! I don't want you to forget! Write down what you've got to say. Give me the verses.”
Because I know that the reason, she's made decisions in her parenting life was because it was based on Scripture. I thought, it's not just her, but so many women have so much to give. But learning the whole blog, Instagram, Facebook, all these things, is such a huge technology gap.
I was thinking, we need to bridge the gap between the older women and younger women, because we know that where are the younger women going? It's much Instagram, blogs, podcasts. We want to make sure that there's good content that leads them to the Lord, and to looking for the Bible for their wisdom.
Nancy: That's good. So, how are you doing it?
Pam: This is a new thing that I thought, “I am really looking forward to having some older mothers send me letters, send me paragraphs, send me lists, and Scriptures.” I gave you a list, and I was trying to remember it. Tell me!
Nancy: You were telling me, let's see, here were some ideas that you'd love to hear from older mothers. If you were an older woman and listening, or even middling to older, and you've got experience, and you've got . . . well, it's like Above Rubies in a way. I'd love you to share your testimony, so it can minister to some other mothers.
That's what Above Rubies is all about. It's one mother sharing her heart with another mother. And then of course, we have the Scriptural mandate of the older women teaching the younger women.
Pam, she's very happy, if you've got this, and you'd love to share these things. You can send to her. Can they get your, what's your email? Is that the same one?
Pam: It might be easier to just hit the Contact button on the blog itself.
Nancy: Yes, OK. Go to the blog, TendingFields.net. That's easy. And then you can contact her through there. You can send her just, you know, things that could be a help to young moms. She's happy to share them on your behalf. Isn't that great? I love that.
Pam: I was thinking, you know, some people may say, “Well, I don't have enough . . . we love what Nancy does. But I don't have the skills, or enough content, to make a whole podcast, or to do a whole blog, or to do a whole thing. But I have just one thing that God taught me.”
Nancy: Just one thing!
Pam: “I have this one thing that the Lord really brought me through that I would love to share with young moms. I would love to bless them, and to show them.” You know, I didn't feel prepared, I didn't feel, whatever, and say, “You know what, you can do it. You can do it and let me stand and show you how the Lord brought me through those things.”
I'm kind of looking for . . . if anybody wants to send me the raw ideas. You don't have to make it perfect. Because the way blogs go, you have to edit, and you have to have certain entries, and break them up into paragraphs. So if people just want to send me some ideas, I would love to take your stories and . . .
Nancy: And put them in a blog!
Pam: So they can share it.
Nancy: I think that is so wonderful. Thank you, Pam. I think that's lovely. So I do hope that some of you will do this. Even if it's one little thing. You know, we're always looking for great big stories and testimonies. Even one little thing that has been a real secret in your marriage, or a real secret in your mothering. Send it in to Pam and she'll be able to put in her blog.
You can either send it in anonymously, or say it's from you, and even give your email so people can be contacting you. The more that we can encourage one another . . .
I love this new statement. You shared it with me today. You said, let's see, I wrote it down, I thought it was so great. “The young women seek; the older women speak.” Now that's, I believe, how it's meant to be. The young women should be seeking to learn.
Now some aren't. They don't want to hear from older women. They think they know what they're doing. But there are many who are seeking, and they want to know the right way. That should be our hearts as younger women, to seek truths and wisdom from older mothers.
Then the older women speak. That's their mandate from God, to speak the words of truth, and to show them the way. So this vision that you have puts it all together. So that's wonderful. Get writing, ladies!
And, of course, you may have a testimony you want to send to me to put in Above Rubies. I'm now going to be thinking on the next issue. So I'm always open to testimonies. Now Pam's ready to get things from you too. So come on, get writing!
Pam: I think we always, there's always an awkward start to conversation, right? There's always, “Well, I have this question, but I'm not sure if she really has the time for me.” You know, as a younger mom, thinking, “I really could use some help and some insight and encouragement, but I don't know if . . . she's so busy, I don't know if she has time for me.”
As an older woman, I think a lot of older women feel like, “Well, she doesn't want my advice. What do I have to offer? I don't really know what I can give.” So we sit there, separated, and not communicating.
God created us for relationship, and not just a simple relationship, but a Titus 2 relationship, with the older women speaking into the lives of the younger women. I think it requires, especially as our society today is so separate and kind of age-segregated, it is going to take boldness, both on the part of the younger women to seek out.
Be bold. Walk up to that older woman and say, “Hey, could I spend some time with you? Do you ever have time for coffee?” Or something like that. So the younger women have to go seek out. In response, the older women . . .
Nancy: Just popping in a little thing here. I do know that many young women find it hard to find that person, because so many older women today, they've raised their children. They think, “OK, that's it. Done with that!” So now they're off cruising, or doing this, or doing that, or getting out into a career. And they're no longer available to the young women.
Nor do they have the right message. Because if they still haven't got that mothering heart, they're not taking that mandate God has given us as older women, to teach the younger women. What are they going to teach them?
“Oh well, ladies, as soon as you've got your children off your hands, well, you just leave the home and get out.” No, the older women are to show the way. So you know, of course, there's many beautiful older women like this out there. We need to hear from you. There's a little gap there too. I know that.
Pam: There is, but the older women also need to know when the younger women come to them, if you should have a younger woman come to you, then be prepared to speak.
Nancy: Be ready to have something. The right words! The truth! That's why I say that not only young women need to read The Power of Motherhood. Every older woman, every grandmother, needs a refresher course. It doesn't matter what career you are in. You have to have refresher courses.
Pam: Absolutely.
Nancy: And we need that as older mothers. I am an older mother. I'm not just a grandmother. I'm a great-grandmother. But I am every day saying, “Oh God, reveal to me Your truth. Please just show me Your total plan. Is there anything more I need to know about Your plan for mothers, for us as wives, because, Lord, You have given me a mandate to give this truth to the young mothers. I need to hear from You.”
We, as older mothers, should all be praying this, so we're not forgetting about mothering just because our children have grown. I often like to speak about the four watches of motherhood. There's the first, the second, the third, the fourth. The fourth watch is when our children have grown.
But that's not the end of motherhood. It's a very, it's like a double anointing of motherhood, because we're now not only ministering just to our family, but to all the young mothers in our sphere of influence. It's a God-mandated thing. Yes!
Pam: I agree, absolutely.
Nancy: Some of the things . . . you sent this to me, and that you write here about ideas:
What’s some ways that I have built relationships with my children?
What are some strategies for building a strong marriage?
Some reasons to, and why and how, to live on a budget? What are some things that I would change, and I would do, if I had really known the truth at the time?
So those are some good suggestions. I like those.
Pam: You don't have to necessarily have led a perfect life. You know, who does? We make mistakes. We learn more from our mistakes often than we do from our successes. We learn from both.
But I think that sometimes it's the enemy talking to us, when we think, “Well, I didn't do everything right. Therefore, I don't have license to speak.” I think what the truth is, is that God has given us authority to speak. We haven't had to do anything perfect to be able to speak.
Nancy: No, sometimes, I think it's a powerful thing when you've done it one way, and now as you're older, you've seen, wow, that “I see the negatives of what I did. That wasn't the way to go.” So you now have all this, “Don't do it the way I did it.”
I think of my very dearest friend in Australia, Val, who, she is the director of Above Rubies in Australia. The most beautiful motherly woman you could ever meet. Val always had this most powerful mothering anointing, not just for her own children, but for everyone around her. People would just want to get near her. She was so motherly and beautiful.
But Val stopped at three children, not really because she wanted to. She was pressured into that by her husband, by her family, by people around her. You know, well, how so many are pressured today, to stop. “OK, you've got your two, your three children, that's it.”
And before she understood the revelation of truth that she knows today, she got a tubal ligation. Then when she came to the revelation of the truth of the blessing of children, who she already loved children, she’s a children lover.
It's so sad, when so many women like this, who are children lovers and have such nurturing hearts, and yet they're still pressured into stopping having children. Their husbands get a vasectomy, or they have a tubal ligation.
So, of course, when Val came to this, she just longed to have her ligation removed and reversed. But anyway, because of health problems and medical problems, she wasn't able to have it reversed, unfortunately.
But Val has risen up to be a mighty truth-speaker to women. She has touched thousands of lives while she holds the fort for Above Rubies back in Australia and has ministered to women all over the nation. She's been able to share her testimony and warn women to not go the way she did. “Don't give into that pressure, because you will always regret it.” She's taken that negative to a positive testimony and teaching of truth.
Pam: Right. And bringing them back to Scripture. I may have had some parts in my life that I've learned from. Let me take you to the Word. Let me show you now in my older wisdom what the Word says on this.
Nancy: Yes. And you, yourself, you didn't have a perfect upbringing, did you?
Pam: No, not at all.
Nancy: You know, you've had to learn how to be a wife and how to mother. Wow, by just seeking it out.
Pam: Right.
Nancy: You had to search for the truth, didn't you?
Pam: Right. Right. Yeah, I think that . . . and this is a really great time to be a mother, in that we have so many resources available. We have the podcasts we can listen to. It's not only encouraging, it's informative. You know, there's websites and blogs and some YouTubes or whatever.
So I think we need to be praying for discernment also, and that we would be able to discern. Because there is so much information out there, and so many people speaking, that we would learn to discern what God is saying, what is truth.
Nancy: Absolutely. And of course that comes back to the word of those who are speaking, taking what they are saying from the Word. I believe the Word of God is the greatest deterrent to deception. Because if you don't have the Word in your heart, you can hear things that sound pretty good and you can just go along with them.
But if you have the Word in your heart, in your mind, in your soul, and you're reading it daily, when you hear something false, goodness me, that Word is in you to give you that block, that checkmate. “Oh, I don't know, I'm not sure about that!” And so then you go into the Word and check it out to see if it is true.
I love to be a Berean, don't you? Remember the Bereans. What does it say? That the Bereans, they, when Paul came to preach to them, he preached the Word. They didn't just say, “Oh, yes sir!” No, the Bible says that they searched the Scriptures to see if what Paul was saying was true (Acts 17;11). Sometimes we have to do that, don't we?
Pam: So jumping now. We were kind of talking more towards that older women to jump to the younger women. Thinking about, I mean, don't think of your child as just . . . they're not going to be a toddler forever! They're going to grow up. These toddlers are going to grow up to be parents. So they will need that discernment someday.
The best way to get them to understand and to be able to divide the truth from a lie is to get the Word into them. To train them and teach them, how do they . . .
How do they do when they're training bank tellers? How do they teach them what is a counterfeit? There's always going to be somebody that comes up with a new way to make a counterfeit. So you don't train them on counterfeits. This feels like a counterfeit bill, this looks like it, because there'll be a new way to come down the pike for deception. The way you teach them is to recognize what the truth is. And they recognize, because there's always going to be somebody that invents something new, something new. So we have to teach so closely.
Nancy: They need to be so familiar with the real.
Pam: Yes. And we need to be so . . . have our children so familiar with what is truth. Let them know and just soak in the Word of God, so that when those deceptions come down the pike, and when they're . . . Not only when they're in our home with us, but when we release them, they have that knowledge that lets them go back to it. to let them know.
Nancy: I know, I've watched your own children. Because every . . . Pam has put on so many Above Rubies retreats for us in Oregon. Each time I have gone up there, I stay with you on Sunday night, because I have to wait for my plane the next morning.
I've watched your children grow from quite little ones to now, help, they're out there in their careers and getting married. It's amazing to see them grow up and so strong in their convictions. They're not going to be pushed over by anyone or any deception, are they? I love it!
Pam: You know, that was one of the things when I became a mom. I felt like, “I don't have the equipment to . . . I don't know that much about the Bible. I don't know the stories of the Bible. I don't know the maps and the archaeology type stuff of the Bible. I don't know any of it! How can I ever teach my child?”
And then I really kind of made it a goal too, that I thought, “For what I know, I want my children to know even more.” And so, I want to, when they leave my home, as a goal, I want them to know more of the Bible than I know.
So my husband is a scholar in all sorts of ways. A self-studied scholar. So I'm just so thankful. Sometimes even at family worship, he may ask a question of all the children, and I'm sitting here thinking, “Wow, I hope one of the children comes up with the answer, because I'm not sure I know that one!” And sure enough, they do!
And I can have a moment of embarrassment, and think, “How do my children know that answer, and I don't know it?” And then I think, “Thank You, Jesus, You've answered my prayer! That they might have a deeper knowledge, they know.” So anyway, I'm thankful for that.
Nancy: That's just so wonderful. Oh yes, oh, by the way, we will be having an Above Rubies Family Camp in Oregon again this year. When you arrived you said, “Oh, let's just check, when is the date?” I couldn't remember the date.
So we looked in the new magazine, and guess what ladies? It was the wrong date! Can you believe it? If you're looking at an Above Rubies magazine, the wrong date is in the magazine. It says that we're going to have the Above Rubies Family Retreat in Oregon from the 30th of September to the first of November—for a whole month!
Pam: We're going to have a whole month-long family camp! (Laughter)
Nancy: A whole month! Isn't that amazing? But actually . . .
Pam: It's a little typo.
Nancy: So sorry, I don't even know how I overlooked that. But anyway, it is the 30th of October to the first of November. And we've had lots of ladies' retreats up there in Oregon, but we have a family camp now. We're doing another family one this year.
It's a wonderful opportunity for you to bring your husband and the whole family. Oh, it's just so wonderful. My husband will speak to the men, I'll speak to the women. Your husbands, they will love my husband. They will be so blessed. So, keep that in mind too.
Pam: Yes, save the date. And start saving, because there's a campground. You can (??? 29:55) it, or you can stay in the campground.
Nancy: And isn't it a campground where you can even bring RVs and things?
Pam: I can't remember.
Nancy: Nor can I.
Pam: I think there might have been limited camping, but we are going to be meeting October 30th to November 1st, so some might want a cabin.
Nancy: Yes, that's right. It will still be quite cold, won't it?
I thought I would even ask you, Pam, just some of these things that you put down that will be so good for other middling and older women to share about. One of these is how do . . . have you built relationships with your children? How have you done that?
Pam: OK, so you're going to give me my own question! (Laughter)
Nancy: Yes, I am!
Pam: I said, “I don't have all the answers for all these questions!”
Nancy: Nor do any of us ever have all the answers! Even I don't have all the answers.
Pam: I think one way is first being a student of my children. They are all so different.
Nancy: Oh, yes!
Pam: You know, once I think I've got it all figured out, I'm like, “I know how to do this mothering thing, this is, I've got this down.” And then you watch one, and you think, “What's going on?” I'm thrown for a loop.
There is not . . . the things I have done have not worked out with this one. So I think sometimes we need to step back and observe them. Maybe even take notes. Observe them. How they interact with other people. What foods they eat? Or what things make them happy? What things fill their little love tank. And what things motivate?
So I think for me, that obviously we're going to be seeking the Word, and we're going to be praying for our children. That's like, without even need to mention, right? But I think sometimes I just need to set back and watch them for a while.
There's sometimes a quest for equality in a family. “Well, you did this with this child, you know, but you didn't do this with me” or that type of thing. We've really learned to say, you know, “Each one of you is unique.” Each one has really different needs. They aren't cookie cutters.
So we watch, and we say, “OK, I see you. This one, time spent is really important to you.” So I am going to take time to do something special, to go somewhere special. You know, somebody got . . . they just love treats. So within reason, and when able, let’s go do a treat.
So I think that that is a real basic, to be thinking of them. And not only, how do I want to run this relationship, but what are their needs?
Nancy: Yes, the things you say are so true. They're all so different, aren't they?
Pam: Right.
Nancy: And you've just got to go with each one really. I noticed, even with your twins, having watched them grow up, they're so different! Like my twins. I mean, oh! They're just night and day!
But I noticed how your son, Caleb . . . yes. No, it's Ben. Ben! Yeah. Even when he was young, oh, I used to just love to watch him walk. He would walk with such purpose! Oh, goodness me, he had purpose in life! Now he's just gone into the military. He's just that kind, type of guy. And then, Isaac, his twin, he's becoming a dentist. He's just so different, isn't he?
Pam: Yes, they're just totally different.
Nancy: Oh, it's amazing, I know. So . . .
Pam: And I think their relationship building too, is...oh now I'm going to lose my train of thought! (Laughter) So . . .
Nancy: Well, I think too, that's a . . . not sure where you were going, but even amongst our own , children too, because they are all so different, they also build their own relationships together. I found some of mine would be best friends with someone for a certain season of life. Then it would become, oh, another two would sort of be more best friends together. They're all great friends together. But they also, amongst their own, they make their own relationships in the family too.
Pam: Which is wonderful, because someday we'll pass away, and our children will continue their relationships. If we passed away, and our children never saw each other, were never friends with each other anymore, how tragic!
Nancy: That would be.
Pam: So it's wonderful when they have the relationships with each other.
What I was going to say, is when they're adults, when they leave the home, the relationship changes. I think that was one, when you said, “How do I build relationships?” And again, it's so unique. You know, I have two adult sons that live in the same town as I do. They come over to eat. You know, they come over to eat. While they're there, we talk. We go over things. I might pick up something for them and send it home with them.
Then my daughter, who's married to a Coast Guard man, they live in another state. And they're the ones with children, so we Facetime. We stay connected with . . . if she needs something, she tells us. She tells us when she wants . . . if there's something we can pray for. But we have to seek in that relationship, even when they're beyond.
My son in the military, we text. This is a different age, and I don't know when he's ever available with military, so I send texts. Or I send pictures of the family and things. And it's really important to continue that, even while they're gone out of the home.
Nancy: Yes. Amen! And as we're closing this session, if you haven't read it already, Pam has written a testimony in this latest Above Rubies, and it's called “The Blessing.” You must read it! It's how, when the children were little, God gave a special blessing for Pam and her husband, Andrew to pray over their children every day. We have the blessing written in the magazine too.
But it's a beautiful testimony and a beautiful thing. Every single night, before they went to bed, Pam, Andrew, or both, you would pray this blessing over them. And now, your daughter and her husband are praying that same blessing over their children, aren't they?
Pam: Yeah, they are. Even this morning my granddaughter pushed the Facetime button to me. She's three. She called me, and she was sad because Daddy just left yesterday on a boat. He'll be on a boat for a while with the Coast Guard. So her heart's hurting for him. And I said, “???? (37:29), do you have a little bunny rabbit with Daddy's voice on it?”
And she said, “Yes.” I said, “Go get your bunny rabbit and push the button.” So she can go get her bunny rabbit and push the button, and it's her Daddy, praying the blessing over her.
Nancy: Oh, how beautiful! Can you remember the blessing?
Pam: Oh yeah!
Nancy: OK, say it!
Pam: Oh, OK. So we change the pronouns, depending on who we're saying it to:
“God bless you with grace and peace, power and protection, health and healing, holiness and godliness, abundance and prosperity, and all the fruit and gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Watch over Your child, oh, Lord, as his days increase. Bless and guide him, wherever he may be, keeping him unspotted from the world. Strengthen him when he stands, comfort him when discouraged or sorrowful. And raise him up if he should fall.
And in his heart, may Your peace which passes understanding abide all the days of his life. In Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.”
Nancy: Amen! What a beautiful blessing! And that is printed in the magazine. If you don't have your own blessing that you're saying over your children, you can take that one.
Blessing, part of parenting is blessing. So thank you for sharing that, Pam, and thank you for being with us again.
Pam: I'm so happy to be here.
Nancy: We love you all.
Transcribed by Darlene Norris.
The following is the latest information from Pam:
“Join our interactive Facebook group, “LESS THAN PERFECT CHRISTIAN MAMAS” where we share tips and insights for the practical side of motherhood and management of our homes. We also have a day devoted to praying for each other as well as encouraging each other to grow in our walk with the Lord. Here’s the link to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/231087377942997/?ref=share
If you are a homeschooler, you may be interested in joining our similar group over at THE HOMESCHOOL HUB. The Homeschool Hub is a new network for you and your teens to take classes, keep up on homeschool news, and join groups. It is free of advertising and exclusively dedicated to be a resource for homeschooling. I lead a “Less Than Perfect Christian Mamas” group in The Homeschool Hub as well. There we cover some of the same topics as on our Facebook group but at a much more relaxed pace. Join me in The Homeschool HUB. You'll love it as much as I do.
https://www.homeschoolhub.org/share/uGda0XvjQum7b-nf
Pam’s blogpost: www.tendingfields.net .
Pam also has a Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest pages under the name “Tending Fields.”
If you have read the latest Above Rubies magazine, No. 97, you will have loved Pam’s story on pages 14 – 15 where she tells about the Family Blessings they pray over their children. Make sure you read it if you haven’t already. You can get this magazine from www.aboverubies.org.
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30 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER, OREGON
ABOVE RUBIES FAMILY RETREAT in Turner, Oregon
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Come and be blessed as a family!
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THE POWER OF MOTHERHOOD
What the Bible Says About You as a Mother
You may have already purchased this book, which is a classic for mothers. If you haven’t, I hope you can get it. Every mother needs this book. At her side and beside her bed.
Young mothers desperately need the encouragement! Middling mothers need it! And even older mothers need it. Older mothers need a refresher course in God’s plan for mothering, so they can take their place as the older mothers who teach the next generation.
You will be amazed at what God has to say to you as a mother! You will receive wonderful understanding through the 245 pages of this manual.
Mothers can use it as a study guide for their older daughters. Many women use this manual as a guide for their Motherhood Bible Study groups.
Go to: http://bit.ly/PowerOfMotherhoodUS