Prayers for new seasons and aging
Becoming an empty nester
For the transitions that come with time.
Also for empty nest · kids moved out · house feels empty · empty nester grief · child left for college
A prayer
Original writing, not a quotation of Scripture.
Lord, the house feels quieter than I know how to get used to now that my children have moved on to their own lives. I'm proud of who they're becoming, even while I grieve the season that's ending. Help me find purpose in this next chapter instead of only feeling the absence of the last one.
Show me who I am outside of the daily routines of raising them, and help our relationship keep growing even from a distance. Thank you for the years you gave us together. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Bible verses for new seasons and aging
Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
“Don’t remember the former things, and don’t consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this: he will make your righteousness shine out like light, and your justice as the noon day sun.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you,” says Yahweh, “thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
I thank my God whenever I remember you, always in every request of mine on behalf of you all, making my requests with joy, for your partnership in furtherance of the Good News from the first day until now; being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.