{"product_id":"daddyvotionals-essays-from-the-empty-nest-9781647195199","title":"Daddyvotionals: essays from the empty nest","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat do you do when your 9 children have all grown and flown the coop? After decades of training, nurturing, and encouraging them, the fatherly \"juices\" want to keep flowing to them. What can be done? Daddyvotionals!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not another collection of Christian devotionals, as you might suspect from the title. Rather, it is a suite of essays I gave my children after they left home! So these are not \"kiddie\" sermons, but are grownup messages to my sons and daughters from their devoted daddy. Some are testimonies of what God has done for us; others are meant to exhort or encourage; a few are deeply theological; and some are really funny!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe have had children living in our home for 45 years! Yes, from the time my wife and I started having babies until the last one moved out, four and a half decades passed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen they started leaving the nest years ago I still had a longing to feed them in a spiritual way as I had done all of their younger lives. I satisfied this desire by emailing them periodically the writings found in these pages. I didn't think I was writing a book-I was simply continuing to communicate my care and love. Somehow it turned into a book, after all!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbild, John:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - John moved to Indiana in 1973 for a summer job. However, Jesus Christ gave him a new birth so he decided to stay. He and his wife, Yvette, moved to Kentucky in 1991 where they completed their family of nine children. They now reside in an empty nest near Shelbyville.","brand":"Booklocker.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50483295977746,"sku":"9781647195199","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d752cf92-f87a-44ee-a24d-041f186b403c.jpg?v=1730359498","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/daddyvotionals-essays-from-the-empty-nest-9781647195199","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}