Fill Your Empty Nest with New Life

Whitney Hopler

Raising children is an important job that can easily consume most of your time and energy when your children are at home. Like any parent, you probably hope that your years of parenting will result in children who have grown into the young adults God hopes them to be, ready to live their lives to their fullest potential.

After they leave home to pursue God's will for their lives, you can celebrate. But you may also be thinking, "Now what?" There's no longer any need for you to prepare lunchboxes, drive to piano lessons and soccer games, or help with homework. You're free, but you may you may feel empty. God will fill the void in your life with new adventures He has planned for you if you trust Him to lead you into this next season.

Here are some ways you can make a fresh start after your children leave home:

Adapted from Taking Flight from the Empty Nest, copyright 2001 by Mary Jenson. Published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, Or., www.harvesthousepubl.com, 1-888-501-6991.

Mary Jenson is a board member of Moms in Touch International ad the San Diego Christian Writers' Guild. She is the author of two previous books and the mother of two grown children, Matt and Molly.

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