by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 17, 2017 | Africa, challenging, compassion, difficulty, discouragement, emotion, encouragement, faith, fear, poverty
I’ve wondered for awhile now how I would write this post; what I would say. Eight hundred words seems only enough to barely outline the dimensions of what I’ve wrestled with for the last several months. You see, we’re leaving Africa. (For now. …Or so I tell myself.)...
by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 14, 2017 | beauty, challenging, emotion, enduring love, love, Marriage, relationships, staying in love, time together
I was eighteen, it was February, and we were all headed on a road trip that weekend to a mutual friend’s house. I’ve wondered what God thought of that day, if perhaps He was rubbing His hands together with glee. The stage was set, everything immaculately timed. In my...
by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 11, 2017 | compassion, emotion, enduring love, God's will, helping others, love, work
Read an interesting quote yesterday. So tell me: Do you agree or disagree? The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. (Frederick Buechner) So at first glance, I’m like, Yes. Yes! Yes with a...
by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 9, 2017 | challenging, closeness and intimacy, emotion, encouragement, enduring love, faith, guest post, Ideas, love, Marriage, methods, prayer, prayers, relationships, spiritual life skills/spiritual disciplines, staying in love, stress, time alone with God, time together
It’s been one of the most pressing seasons for our marriage. We’ve been navigating a crux of major life decisions—only one of which included the continent we’d be living on. And our marriage that has been characterized by fairly fluid teamwork can at times be pulled...
by Janel Breitenstein | Feb 7, 2017 | children, compassion, enduring love, Family, helping others, Home and Hospitality, humility, Ideas, kids, love, methods, motherhood, Parenting, poverty, practical, spiritual life skills/spiritual disciplines, true success, tweens and teens, work
Catch earlier posts here on Solitude, Prayer, Meditation and Contemplation, and Simplicity. Find initial concepts for this important series here. Part of what I love about living in Africa: opportunities for my kids to serve are everywhere. As in, next door. I admit...
