by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 8, 2016 | Africa, challenging, children, closeness and intimacy, difficulty, enduring love, faith, Family, God's will, helping others, love, Parenting, relationships
This week, my parents are arrived in Africa! Though this is their third trip since we’ve lived here, it’s still fraught with so much giddiness and anticipation. Rather than living life together as we hoped, our time together seems scrunched into the few...
by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 5, 2016 | children, Humor, kids, Parenting
…Because there’s just too much real life not to share. Me, to son: Dude, you’re not wearing underwear. Him, loftily: I don’t follow the laws of my fellow man. Son: Dad, what year were you born again? Dad: 1979. Son, repeating to self:...
by Janel Breitenstein | Apr 1, 2016 | challenging, conflict, Culture, difficulty, fear, God's will, relationships, time management, time together, true success, work
I’ve written before about this whole idea of our opportunities versus whether we’re actually called to do something. Oh—and about the true cost of my overcommitment. And I’m happy to report that I have proudly mastered these concepts in full. And it seems I’ve still...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 29, 2016 | Africa, children, compassion, Family, Gratitude, guest post, humility, Ideas, kids, love, methods, Parenting, poverty, practical, true success, tweens and teens, work
Happy to be posting again on my friend Kristen Welch’s site, WeareTHATFamily.com: To be the Grateful Generation. I’m super-stoked about her new book, Raising Grateful Kids in An Entitled World, which is chock-full of practical wisdom as we all try to...
by Janel Breitenstein | Mar 25, 2016 | enduring love, Holidays; Occasions, humility
Who believes what we’ve heard and seen? Who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this? The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to...
