Ep 212 A Legacy of Recalibrating Your Life with Jenny Abel

Free lance writer, editor, mother of two, Jenny Abel talks today on the preciousness of recalibrating your life, all for heaven's sake. Co-author with Kenneth Boa of the book, Recalibrate Your Life: Navigating Transitions with Purpose and Hope, Abel defines recalibration as consciously processing where we've been, where we are now, and looking ahead to where God may want to lead us. "This isn't something we only do at the end of our lives," Jenny says, "rather we do it on a regular basis to help us gain perspective: Are we numbering our days to gain a heart of wisdom?"

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Teach us to number our days,
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Psalm 90:12

Some gems:

• At the heart of recalibration is a pilgrim mindset.
• Before we can recalibrate, we need to calibrate: do we belong to God? Are our minds set on Christ?
• My relationship with God would not be what it is without my time in the dark valley of infertility.
• Knowing you are really going to die someday changes everything.
• Our career changes; the calling on our lives is never ending.
• Suffering prompts recalibration.
• My desire is to inspire others to know and hope in God and call them to gaze on God's beauty.
• Our pride, our day-to-day inertia, digging in our heels—all of these things keep us from numbering our days. 

Jenny Abel is an editor and writer for Ken Boa, coauthor of Recalibrate Your Life. Having sat under Boa’s teaching since she was a teenager, she began working for him and his Reflections Ministries in 2013. She served as editor of the monthly Reflections teaching letter from 2017 to 2023. She cowrote Shaped by Suffering and A Guide to Practicing God’s Presence with Dr. Boa and edited his book Life in the Presence of God. A freelance writer and editor, she founded Jenny M. Abel Editorial Services (www.abeleditorial.com) in 2011. She holds a BS in mathematics with a concentration in Latin American studies from Furman University, is a graduate of the Focus on the Family Leadership Institute, and resides in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Ben, and their two young children.

 

Book web page: http://recalibrateyourlife.org

 

Ken Boa’s website: http://kenboa.org  

Ken’s social media: Reflections Ministries - YouTube, Facebook, Kenneth Boa (@ken.boa) • Instagram photos and videos

 

 

AND, Jenny shared a recipe! Yay! I'm not sure I'd decrease the butter, but that's just me. Thanks, Jenny!

Grand Canyon Coffee Cake

Part 1:

¾ c. canola or vegetable oil
2½ c. flour*
¾ c. sugar
1 c. brown sugar (light or dark)
1 tsp. nutmeg
1 tsp. salt
Part 2:

2 tsp. cinnamon
2 eggs, beaten
1 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 stick butter

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F. Combine Part 1 ingredients and mix thoroughly (in an electric mixer).
Take ¾ c. of this mixture and set it aside.
Part 2: To the set-aside mixture, add 2 tsp. cinnamon. This will serve as the topping. To the rest
of the Part 1 mixture, add eggs, buttermilk, powder, and soda. Pour into the bottom of a greased 9” x
13” pan. Sprinkle the topping crumbles on top, distributing evenly. Bake 25–30 min. or until toothpick
comes out clean.
Melt the 1 stick butter and drizzle on top of the hot cake. Serve warm for breakfast or anytime!
*Note: I often use whole wheat flour for all or part of this case to make it healthier. I also decrease the
amount of butter drizzled on top to about ½ to 2/3 of a stick.