6 Cycles of Family Remodeling the Nest

6 Cycles of Family 

Remodeling the Nest

Love builds the nest

Love remodels it

“Love never fails”

The emptying of the nest happens

 as each child leaves the nest.

All the reasons they leave

have an impact on the parents.

Leaving for college, marriage or

just wanting to be on their own. 

Some parents have to push the child out to teach responsibility

and others fear the child is not ready for the world.

The distance between the parents’ nest

and the child’s also have a role to play.

No matter how the child leaves,

 the parents will worry.

No matter how many children leave

the nest the last one is never easy.

The parents’ role is not over when the

nest is empty, but the role does change.

It becomes very important that the parents’

view the future of their children the same.

That they are in agreement with their own future.

God says…

“I know the plans I have for you plans for a future and a hope.”

Parents need to dream, make

plans with an attitude of prayer.

This major change in their lives

opens doors for new opportunities.

It is more than redecorating the child’s bedroom.

God has a plan to redecorate the nest.

Redecorating always takes work but that work can be

enjoyable when you have a vision of the finished product. 

Sandy and I have for years dreamed

of how our empty nest should look.

We discovered different viewpoints

that we needed time to process.

The most important thing we found was our values.

Your values must be the rock,

the foundation of the empty nest.

How you accomplish the values

will have a difference of opinion.

But those opinions will become unified

as you keep focused on the values.

Your values will give you your propose for life.

So before you get to the empty nest, define

your values, the purpose of your lives.

If your nest is empty, revisit

your values and purpose.

The parents who do this will find fullness of life.

Remember our values start from the value of LOVE.

Love causes us to put away childish things.

It is what causes us to grow in every Cycle of Family.

Because Love never fails.

There are 6 cycles for a family to navigate 

“Cycles of family life”

The marriage

Bearing children

Raising children

The empty nest / launching new family

The declining years

Death in the marriage

Family cycles should be a great experience for the whole family

Scripture Reading

1 Corinthians 13 NIV

13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.

But the greatest of these is love.