Getting ready for deployment brings a whole range of emotions. I delayed this post several times because I was hoping to be able to explain it better as it got closer. I can't. Some days you wouldn't be able to tell what's coming up. Other days, Jeremy deserves a medal for dealing with unexpected crying spells. My best friend will not be home with me everyday. The list of things I'll miss about him is much too long for this blog. At the same time, our roles will change too. The way we love, support, and encourage each other will change. The way he leads and I follow will look different.
Deployment is a pause in what we know as "normal." We also found out that our adoption process is also paused. It's on hold because we have basically run out of time. It doesn't really change our story much since we knew we weren't going to be placed with a child during the deployment. But completed paperwork was the goal. A year of waiting to be chosen is now a year with an incomplete file taking up space in a metal box somewhere- to be continued. We are at peace with it knowing that this doesn't change our calling, just a break in the process.
Thankfully we are reminded over and over that this isn't God's first rodeo...er, adoption or deployment. We are both very hopeful of what is to come. For everything there is a season. Not a season I would pick necessarily -- refer to "For our good" post -- but our season nevertheless. We'll be able to look back and say look what God did.
oh one last thing - please check out this blog:
http://jordan-jordansjourney.blogspot.com
This is my sister in law, Jordan's blog and she did a fantastic job explaining the picture of adoption and our family's clear call to it! Thanks Jordan. I love you! You're going to be a great aunt!
Showing posts with label military life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military life. Show all posts
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Saturday, April 21, 2012
Not Yet
Welp, I got my first taste of Army wife life today at Family day with Jeremy's unit. It was good to meet the guys whose last names I know and I've heard about. They are really nice bunch! I met the ladies of the FRG (something I thought only happened on Army wives shows)! I look forward to getting to know those ladies better in the coming year. These are our shirts. Love them!
During our time with other military families, I was reminded that many wives are new to the "don't get excited" rule. "Don't get excited" means my husband may tell me something is going to happen but I shouldn't get too excited (good or bad) because it may change. Things are always changing and yes, that's a part of everyone's life... but especially in the military. Until a plane has left with or without your spouse, nothing is official it seems. When your husband is deploying, you have to come to terms with "not yet" on some things you thought were going to happen.
Bottom line, God is saying "not yet" to all the things we thought this year had for us, to the things He asked us to do. And for that I am thankful. I am thankful that God is (and will be) patient with me when I lose mine. For His comfort when I start to doubt what this wait is about. For His gentle reminders through a friend and my sweet husband that He's at work in the wait. For His strengthening our marriage and getting us ready to be parents. While I won't lie or say it's going to be easy to adjust to, I know He wrote the story and is saying, "Not yet. Keep reading...."
Adoption Update: Jeremy and I went to our second and last training session this week. We'll be finishing up the paperwork plus medical forms to turn in early next week! Then inspections and home study after that. Woot!
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes
- Matt Redman "10,000 Reasons"
During our time with other military families, I was reminded that many wives are new to the "don't get excited" rule. "Don't get excited" means my husband may tell me something is going to happen but I shouldn't get too excited (good or bad) because it may change. Things are always changing and yes, that's a part of everyone's life... but especially in the military. Until a plane has left with or without your spouse, nothing is official it seems. When your husband is deploying, you have to come to terms with "not yet" on some things you thought were going to happen.
Bottom line, God is saying "not yet" to all the things we thought this year had for us, to the things He asked us to do. And for that I am thankful. I am thankful that God is (and will be) patient with me when I lose mine. For His comfort when I start to doubt what this wait is about. For His gentle reminders through a friend and my sweet husband that He's at work in the wait. For His strengthening our marriage and getting us ready to be parents. While I won't lie or say it's going to be easy to adjust to, I know He wrote the story and is saying, "Not yet. Keep reading...."
Adoption Update: Jeremy and I went to our second and last training session this week. We'll be finishing up the paperwork plus medical forms to turn in early next week! Then inspections and home study after that. Woot!
Whatever may pass, and whatever lies before me
Let me be singing when the evening comes
- Matt Redman "10,000 Reasons"
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