INTENTIONAL GRANDMOTHERING

INTENTIONAL GRANDMOTHERING; Choosing the Life Philosophy that Works for All Children in the World

Terry P. Anderson Sandra Maslow Smith

First Printing 2013

Contents

Introduction – The Living Philosophy and the Work

• The Unfolding… Reflections on the Necessity for Intentional Grandmothering
• To be Clear…
• Now Needed: A Willful “Yes”
• The Work Now before Us

Part 1 – Clearly Seeing the Reality before Us

• The Children’s Reality
• Our Human Reality
• Faith – Faith in Life
• The Perspective We Hold
• The Organizing Power of Philosophy
• Our Choice

Part 2 – Taking On an Initiating Role

• The Initiating Process Role of Now
• An Unfolding Story of Realization… Realizing Intended Potential
• Some Essential Seeing and Understanding… The Development of which requires Intentional Dialoguing
• Now Needed

Part 3 – Seriously Pursuing the Way of Intent requires Seeing Christ as Process… Only Possible through taking a Life of the Whole Perspective

• The Essential Petition
• Following the Way of Intent… Reflections emerging from Ongoing Dialogue

Part 4 – Going Forward… or Not

• Our Story – Our Unfolding Story of Choice
• The Unfolding… Reflections on the Necessity for Intentional Grandmothering