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Ep. 13 | Podcast Interview With My Husband on Marriage

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This year, I’m celebrating 25 years of marriage. And our kids remind us….that’s a very long time, which must make us very old. Watch it, young Jedi.  We’ve had our good days and bad, our amazing seasons and the ones where we barely made it, but here we are, committed to the end.

We recently sat down together to record a series of podcasts focusing on marriage, ministry and parenting. We answered some questions from my Facebook group and had fun reminiscing, being vulnerable and we didn’t argue once (or stop recording!)

I hope our first conversation about our marriage encourages you in yours.

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Compassion Starts Here: Conversation Starters to Help Kids See the Least of These around You

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Guest post by Janel Breitenstein For the last year, my 12-year-old daughter has revealed her dream to become a movie director, or at least a screenwriter. I admit raising my mental eyebrows a bit at this one, for the sheer sake of the competition for jobs like this. There’s gotta be, what? 3 million kids who’d love to be movie directors right now. And maybe there are, what? 6.7 movie director jobs out there? But either way. Even if that’s notthe job God has for her, she’s starting ... Read More

Because It’s Time For a List

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  How about that Fall Collection at Mercy House Global? (happy tears) Last week, we trekked back to the mountains where we spent our sabbatical last summer. As I slept in the same bed and hiked the same trails and drank my morning coffee on the same back porch, I was flooded with memories. I remembered how unhealthy and burned out I was a year ago. I realized I am in a much better place this year. That makes me so grateful. (Plus, mountain weather was 25 degrees less). This week, ... Read More

When Hope Rises: A Fall Collection

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I will never forget seeing my first African sunset ten years ago. The year-round fall colors of dusk highlighted the beauty and the heartbreak of a breathtaking, broken place. My normal, right along with my heart, split in two and if it weren't for hope, I wouldn't have returned home from Kenya and its stunning sunsets to start Mercy House Global. Hope rose. I did, too. Because that's what we do--believers--we hope for the impossible. We believe God --the One who hung coconuts ... Read More

The Resource That Showed Me I Have What It Takes (And You Do Too) | Ep. #11

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Podcast Transcript (scroll down to LISTEN): If you’ve read anything I’ve ever written, you might have picked up on a theme of inadequacy or an overwhelmed tone. You would be right. I wrote these words in 2014: I used to think my greatest fear was inadequacy. I believed these words for a very long time. You could never do that. You aren’t good enough. You cannot make a difference. You will fail. But the day I said yes to something bigger than my capability, I discovered ... Read More

Should We Raise Our Kids to Love Their Lives?

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I love my life. Recently, I was telling someone about my weekly trips to visit refugees in Houston and I sighed deeply at the honor of this opportunity and the purpose I felt and finished my thought with, "Ah, I love my life." My friend looked at me and said, "I cringe when I hear those words...not in the way you just used them, but my family says that all the time and they are referring to the ease and comfort of life and all the stuff we have. They literally love their lives because ... Read More