Why Create the GrandmaCanLearn Blog?
Hello, my name is Rebecca. I am the mother of one daughter, a son-in-law who is more like a son, and the grandmother of one grandson. I started to learn in 2024 that I still had an opportunity to grow in Christ while searching for Inner Healing after the death of my mother. My mother died a few days before Christmas in 2023. My sister, Marilyn, and I started talking daily and ending our conversations in prayer as we grieved. Then, in February of 2024, Marilyn sent my daughter and me a book she had read 25 years ago about Inner Healing and Spiritual Growth. Marilyn purchased more copies of Dobson’s Book to start an online Book Club with friends from the Congregation where she worships.
I started talking to my sister daily about shared events in our lives. I was shocked by our polar opposite perspectives. Seeing our shared events from another person’s perspective was eye-opening! God is using the time I spend with my sister, my daughter, and others to lead me on an Inner Healing and Spiritual Growth journey I had not expected.
Marilyn’s Book Club evolved, taking us through the Names of God using the Scriptures. It is always a blessing to get to know God even better. Jesus has led me to once again embrace the Christian Disciplines that I had dropped. I had dropped most Christian Disciplines, except for prayer. I have hypothyroidism, which affects every cell in my body, and a troubling side effect for me is extreme fatigue on some days. Due to illness and depression, I had become what my late father referred to as the Frozen Chosen.
One Christian Discipline Jesus had always used in my life to help me hear Him better was journaling. I am beginning to see things through God’s perspective in a new way, and I have started journaling again. Dobson’s Book also helped me see how I was trying to lead Jesus, instead of letting Him lead me. When I became a Christian in the late 1980s, the Christian Discipline of Journaling was a tool of God’s blessings. Now, God is leading me to do it in a new way, as an electronic version. I am so grateful this old Grandma can still learn! I have had to learn how to navigate through the cold waters of Host Server Companies and blogging software. I have had to fight off the hordes of enemy spammers and web-based performance issues that are beyond my control. The YouTube platform, with its many tutorial videos, has become my tutor and mentor.
An unexpected blessing came through Dobson’s book on forgiveness, which I hope will also bless my family. I had always forgiven others out of a sense of duty to Jesus because He had forgiven me. Dobson’s book presented the subject of forgiveness in a way I could finally understand. I had not experienced real forgiveness towards myself before. Forgiveness was presented as something you must do for yourself first, then for others, in the presence of Jesus. He had us imagine going to the foot of the cross and forgiving ourselves and others. For the first time in my life, at the ripe old age of 70 years, I was finally able to forgive myself and others. I have more information about this book on the Books Page.
I hope that our Heavenly Father will use this effort to share what He is doing within my heart and mind as a blessing for my family and friends. He loves us all more than we can comprehend, but let us try to understand as much as possible! We need to know how dearly we are loved by our Father of love, Lord Jesus, and His Holy Spirit.