Living miles apart can make meaningful connection more difficult, but distance doesn’t have to determine how close you are. Roger Marsh offers encouragement for grandparents who want to remain an important part of their grandchildren’s lives, even from far away. Keeping Grandparents Close https://cdn.bfldr.com/FK28HSHN/at/ksbgn4trb53z7shx35pk2r/keeping-grandparents-close-vertical.mp4 Nurturing Grandchildren Through Prayer A lot of you told us the same thing in different words: We don’t live close enough, and we’re missing important moments. Boone and Peggy Powell built their grandparenting around that exact problem. Their grandchildren were not next door. So they did two things. First, they prayed by name, daily, for each one. Not generally. Specifically, for the thing that child was actually facing that week. The Powells’ argument to Dr. Dobson was that you can be a genuinely active participant in a grandchild’s relationship with God from any distance at all—and that most grandparents greatly underestimate this because they can’t see it working. Second, they built a tradition and defended it. They ran what they called Cousin Camps, a fixed window every year when the grandchildren came to them, without their parents, and something happened that could not happen on a two-hour holiday visit. The Powells’ second approach offers an important ...