Taking Flight from the Empty Nest : Stories of Fresh Starts When Your Kids Leave Home

by Jenson, Mary

• ISBN13: 9780736902335
• ISBN10: 0736902333
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: Harvest House Pub

Summary

With sensitivity and compassion. Mary jenson shares her mother's heart and acknowledges the enormous changes that occur emotionally and practically as the nest empties and children take flight. These pages also echo with hope and laughter as she tells of the wonderful growth that happens in this new season--fresh and fruitful growth that you too can have in your relationship with your spouse, with your grown-up children. and with God. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mary Jenson is a board member of Moms in Touch International and the San Diego Christian Writers' Guild

Table of Contents

Responding	7	(39)
Beginnings
Hovering--My Spiritual Gift
The Comfort of Home
Up, Up and Away
His Children Will Be Mighty in the Land
The Comfort of Mom
Maple Syrup and Lobsters
It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Whose Socks Are Whose?
Releasing	39	(42)
The Launching
Far and Away
On the Road Again
Emotional Food
Worldly Goods
Laying the Easter Egg
Speaking the Truth in Love...Again
Micro-Body
Bearing Burdens
Great Expectations
Altars and Nose Rings
Protective Clothing?
The Road Less Traveled
Recharging	81	(40)
Modern Maturity
Romania
Miracle Love
In Sickness and in Health
Sonnet 116
Closed-In Communion
Failing at Clay
Frost
The Road Not Taken
Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity Jig
My Knight of Knights
The Grace That Goes Before
Reaffirming	121	(26)
Jesse
Smiling Easter Eyes
Roosters and Basketball
The Night Watches
Living Alone Together
New Life
The Perfect Morn
The Final Separation
Urgent Care
I Didn't
Teachable Moments
Rekindling	147	(26)
Scooters and Haircuts
Emancipation
The Kids Are Gone, the Dogs Are Dead
Dating Again--An Empty-Nest Moment
We Are Who We Are
Kickboxing
Is It Hot in Here, or Is It Just Me?
Beaches and Redwoods
Reflecting	173
Been There, Done That
Endings
Epilogue