by Janel Breitenstein | Jul 28, 2021 | children, compassion, enduring love, fear, helping others, spiritual life skills/spiritual disciplines
So this past weekend was the community garage sale in my small town. Though I’m really aspiring to greater simplicity, a community garage sale is my kryptonite. I was super-excited about a necklace I found. But when I paired the necklace with a bracelet...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jul 22, 2021 | challenging, children, difficulty, discouragement, encouragement, enduring love, failure, faith, fear, kids, Printables and Freebies
So there’s this chance raising teenagers could kill me. I’m (again) in one of these parenting seasons where hope feels like a mind game. There is indeed a battlefield in my brain, in my soul. Outwardly I am still plowing through my inbox and loading the...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jul 8, 2021 | Africa
So maybe knowing the off-roading ways of my mind, you won’t be surprised: My lunch recently inspired a way to draw out the best in my kids. Lately I’ve been sawing into the Roma tomatoes glowing red from the wooden bowl on my counter. I lay slices of fresh...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 20, 2021 | faith, Family, kids, love, Parenting, practical, time together
Question: Where did you get your mental/emotional/spiritual/social blueprints on how to build a Christian home? A friend of mine is a first-generation Christian. Aside from a few moments in college, a week of VBS was about the extent of Christian education–there...
by Janel Breitenstein | Jun 12, 2021 | Africa
When I first got married, it was not long after an intense “mean girls” period in my life. You know, there are some hard ways to socially learn what not to do. Here are some of the lessons–of varying legitimacy–in which I had been viciously...
