faith deployed.

If you're a military wife and a lover of Jesus than "Faith Deployed" and their blog is essential.  I don't have really any military wife friends down here and reading these devotions and blog entries are a God send.  It's a unique situation and it's really uplifting when someone can speak into your life.

This article was posted today.  It's a letter to civilian friends from a military wife.  I hesitate to even comment on it, because it's basically admitting I do need help.  Seriously though, who is going to cut the damn lawn?  I can manage the trash, the baby, dinner, groceries, and the like.  The lawn?  Beyond me.

Don't get me wrong, my husband is not going into war torn Afghanistan to fight the Taliban.  He's going to the Bering Sea to map the ocean floor.  He doesn't get overtime.  He doesn't get a bonus.  He just goes.  I especially relate to the part where it apologizes for not asking my other friends how I can pray for them.  This life breeds self centeredness.  You give so much and you spend so much time adapting that it can be hard to minister to people.  Instead you expect to be ministered to and that's not always the best attitude.

So, I'm flying solo.  I actually got misty eyed when he left.  I didn't know I had it in me!  People, I did not cry.  I don't cry.

I guess what I'm trying to say is you're about to see a lot of posts about sewing projects.