Category: Military Life
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The Hopeful Side of Experience (Nov 2013)
Originally posted November 2013 The other day I posted about how experience and being ‘connected’ are two very different things on the internet. Although I meant every word of what I said, there is another side to the story, a side that I like to call hopefulness. The sunny side.…
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Reintegration- unnecessary if you didn’t have a profound experience already (Jan 2012)
Originally from Jan 2012 Reintegration:verb; To make or be made into a whole again; to amalgamate or help amalgamate with an existing community. Reintegration is unnecessary if you don’t feel separated right? But, if you have a profound experience in life, it can make you feel a bit ‘out of…
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Scones chase the blues away (Jan 2012)
(Posted Jan 2012) Used to the constant movement required to keep a household for a family of six moving smoothly, I found myself still. Too still. Not in a good way. I enjoyed having the time to devote to God and study, but I began experiencing what I now believe…
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Crossing the Mojave
Also known to my son Graham as the MO- Jayv rather than Mo-Ha-Vey desert. The interstate that transects it is a daunting road to drive. On our recent move to Los Angeles California, we came in via I-40, which crosses the Mojave Desert. This is not country to mess around…
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Amid the boxes and packing paper
Lately it seems my blogs have ended up in my seminary blog, but today, this is just about me and my life. Not about how it works with seminary. Today, it is about the fact I sit in this house, as it is almost empty of our things; things that…
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The answer is… suck it up and drive on
Many a time I am asked, “How do you do it? How do you live with a man, give him your heart and bear him children, all while knowing he may leave for battle and never return?” They even ask, “How does he do it? How does he live with…
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moving…..
Fold, tape, wrap, nestle, fold, tape, label, repeat. Slice, unfold, unwrap, find the right spot, repeat. Almond oil for cuticles dried out by packing paper and boxes. Epsom salts for sore muscles and feet. Wine to chill me out so I don’t go totally OCD on my family. Preset postcard…
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It will come… sooner or later.
Today is a different day. That doesn’t mean that things are different though. Yesterday a friend was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. Try as I might, I cannot cut short the sadness over the loss of his life in this world. I could not travel the 6 hours…
Mistress of Divinity 