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Guest Post: Taming the Chaos in Your Home

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There are moments in my home that can only be tidily described as chaos.

About author

Janel Breitenstein is the author of Permanent Markers: Spiritual Life Skills to Write on Your Kids’ Hearts (Harvest House, 2021), plus a few more in the pipeline—including IRL Parent Prayers (Andrews McMeel) and The Cool Mom: Putting Anger on Ice When Life Boils Over (Kregel). Her work can be found on Christianity Today, Focus on the Family, and FamilyLife. She graduated summa cum laude from John Brown University and began her career with NavPress, where she worked on The Message Bible. She then moved to FamilyLife Publishing. In January of 2012, Janel and her husband packed up their family of six and moved to Uganda to serve with Engineering Ministries International (eMi), an organization focusing on poverty relief and development, providing structural design and construction management for Christian organizations in the third world. After five and a half years there in East Africa, she and her family returned to the U.S., where they continue to work on behalf of the poor. She speaks, writes, and loves on her family from Colorado. Her fresh, authentic, intimate style connects with readers around the globe. You can find her—“The Awkward Mom”—having uncomfortable, important conversations at JanelBreitenstein.com.

2 Comments

  • Seth Kempf - 7 years ago

    Hey Janel! Love the reference to that Hebrew phrase–it’s a good study! You may have heard this as well when you looked into it, but the same words are used in Jeremiah 4:23 to illustrate what is almost like an un-creating we can bring about through foolishness and sin. תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ (tohu va bohu) is what life looks when we push aside our God who brings good and beautiful order…when we say, “no” to the Creator who made all things “very good” in the beginning.

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    • Janel - 7 years ago

      Oh, I love this. Thanks so much for passing this on. Perfect illustration for what the Holy Spirit redeems in us!

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