by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 17, 2016 | enduring love, faith, friendships, Gospel, helping others, love, quotes, relationships, staying in love, true success
Today’s quotable is from Elisabeth Elliot–with a free chalkboard printable of this anchoring truth: The secret is Christ in me, not me in a different set of circumstances. -Elisabeth Elliot
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 15, 2016 | challenging, children, current events, faith, fear, humility, identity, kids, Parenting, true success
Around the world, so many of us are grieving this senseless tragedy in Orlando, trying to make evil fit into a narrative that would make sense. Beginning on Monday morning, I’ve felt myself pushing against that gray, shapeless mass that is anxiety–for a...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 9, 2016 | Africa
It was my senior year in my public high school; World History. We’d been assigned a debate with ties to Christianity in history. A lot of the brightest students from our school were involved. And here’s the brilliant logic that spiraled from my mouth: “So many people...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 6, 2016 | children, Family, Holidays; Occasions, Parenting, relationships, true success, tweens and teens
I am okay, I think, with not being my sons’ hero. I am even more okay with this because that spot has been occupied by their dad—since, oh, I finished nursing. My husband is a wonderfully different kind of Good Dad to my brand of Mom-ness. When we moved to Africa, one...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 2, 2016 | Africa, Culture, Gospel, poverty
If you’ve ever stood in the middle of African worship, it’s…well, it’s pretty hard to stand still. As I first stood just mildly observing at our recent refugee center staff retreat, I marveled at the full-bodied–literally!–movement...
