If you are burdened to pray for a service member or his/her family who is deployed, what would you say? Consider that far more important than their physical safety is their walk with God. Make that the focus of your prayer, most of the time. [Note: I use the masculine gender because my husband is [...]
Filed under: Military Life, Prayer
This last month has been rather busy, and I told friends that my July was going to be completely empty! But that’s part of my story. We can divide many of our troubles into problems we can do something about, and problems we can’t do anything about. Often our problems are a mix of the [...]
Filed under: Friends, Military Life
The other day, we had a tearful moment when David realized we’ll be in Texas for his friend Elia’s birthday. When we told him that we probably would be unable to drive him nine hours to New Mexico for the event, he was grief stricken. The last move wasn’t too difficult. David and Bethel were [...]
Tags: PCSing
Filed under: Discipleship, Military Life
Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain. It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep. Psalm 127:1-2 Every wise [...]
Filed under: Military Life
Last week, Lee told me that he would probably be coming home a week or two after his expected arrival time. That means my counter is off by a little more than a week, but I don’t know how to fix it. I stopped removing chains from the paper chain we made until I know [...]
Filed under: Military Life
I’m just a few weeks away from seeing the blessed end of my husband’s deployment. Now it feels close (2 months ago, it felt as much as when he first left). But it also seems like the hardest part. Be not weary in well doing, for we shall reap in due season if we faint [...]
Tags: deployment
Filed under: Military Life
Would you believe that God put in our church a Christian Iraqi man? What are the odds of that, in our little town in the middle of nowhere? How good is God? Providing a family whose Christian heritage in Iraq goes back many generations? God always seems to provide gentle reminders of his lovingkindness when [...]
Filed under: Military Life
Lee leaves tomorrow for his six month deployment. I have a few more thoughts. First, our church body isn’t a military church, so they don’t have much experience with deployments. But they are believers, and they take seriously God’s commands to lift each other up practically and spiritually. I plan to visit my parents, but [...]
Filed under: Military Life
I recently reread Psalm 78 and realized that I haven’t talked with my children about what God has done in our family’s lives. We talk about Bible stories, but God is the God of Today, not just Yesterday. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds [...]
Filed under: Military Life, Wisdom
Amazing how a clean house makes you feel more spiritual! I have to remember that. Today (after a long period of not doing so) I read Psalms to my children at breakfast. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a [...]
Filed under: Military Life
