God is Good...
God is good. All the time. I should have known; I mean He’s done this my whole life. He has a way of sneaking in and prepping my heart and my path for the plans He has in store for me. I started this blog over two months ago- feeling a strong calling to begin one, but having no idea what I was to write about. As this deployment has progressed, God has made it more and more evident to me that my place here in Franklin is no accident. I think I should back up though, and explain how I got here.
I married my husband Bernard in September of 2007. The day after our wedding, we drove to Fort Bragg NC in search of our first place to call home and his first post for duty. We were blessed with a pregnancy 3 months later and then handed a deployment 4 months into the pregnancy. I decided to move back home to Franklin, TN and in with my parents after God had spoken to my heart and led me back. Four months into his deployment, Bernard broke his ankle and was sent back to Bragg. He found us a home and moved our stuff into it during the two weeks’ notice I had given my work in TN. The night before my flight back to Fort Bragg to move back in with Bernard and pick up at Womack Army Medical Center for my labor and delivery, Baby Gabriana decided to come early and my water broke. Bernard made it to Vanderbilt Hospital only a few hours after her birth, and we took the long drive back to NC only 6 days later.
Through the good and the bad, all the changes that a baby and a return from deployment brings, we had 9 wonderful months together before Bernard was deployed again. He left on May 25 and we were told he would be back by February. Only two months into the deployment, we were informed that they were being extended by a YEAR. So we’re now looking at a 14 month deployment to Afghanistan.
In all of this, despite my seasons of change, fear, doubt, anger and even loss of faith, God has been consistant. He has provided. He has answered prayers. He has guided me. And that’s what brings me here. Back to TN, to give Gabbi an amazing opportunity to spend a year with her grandparents and to give me the support and familiarity that I missed and longed for while at Fort Bragg.
Last summer I signed up for the Wives of Faith newsletter. In the last year, I never got around to unsubscribing, as I figured being back with Bernard at Bragg, I no longer needed them. Little did I know, I needed them a lot. God brought me back to TN to meet Sara Horn. To give me an opportunity to reach out and encourage military wives around the country, and maybe even around the world. So I’ll be blogging; blogging about struggles, trials, miracles and faith. I’ll share stories, resources, jokes, and personal experiences.
I want you to know that I’m talking to you. That Wives of Faith is for you; whether you’re facing a deployment or not. That I hope to help you through whatever you’re facing right now in your journey. And that God is good. All the time.
I married my husband Bernard in September of 2007. The day after our wedding, we drove to Fort Bragg NC in search of our first place to call home and his first post for duty. We were blessed with a pregnancy 3 months later and then handed a deployment 4 months into the pregnancy. I decided to move back home to Franklin, TN and in with my parents after God had spoken to my heart and led me back. Four months into his deployment, Bernard broke his ankle and was sent back to Bragg. He found us a home and moved our stuff into it during the two weeks’ notice I had given my work in TN. The night before my flight back to Fort Bragg to move back in with Bernard and pick up at Womack Army Medical Center for my labor and delivery, Baby Gabriana decided to come early and my water broke. Bernard made it to Vanderbilt Hospital only a few hours after her birth, and we took the long drive back to NC only 6 days later.
Through the good and the bad, all the changes that a baby and a return from deployment brings, we had 9 wonderful months together before Bernard was deployed again. He left on May 25 and we were told he would be back by February. Only two months into the deployment, we were informed that they were being extended by a YEAR. So we’re now looking at a 14 month deployment to Afghanistan.
In all of this, despite my seasons of change, fear, doubt, anger and even loss of faith, God has been consistant. He has provided. He has answered prayers. He has guided me. And that’s what brings me here. Back to TN, to give Gabbi an amazing opportunity to spend a year with her grandparents and to give me the support and familiarity that I missed and longed for while at Fort Bragg.
Last summer I signed up for the Wives of Faith newsletter. In the last year, I never got around to unsubscribing, as I figured being back with Bernard at Bragg, I no longer needed them. Little did I know, I needed them a lot. God brought me back to TN to meet Sara Horn. To give me an opportunity to reach out and encourage military wives around the country, and maybe even around the world. So I’ll be blogging; blogging about struggles, trials, miracles and faith. I’ll share stories, resources, jokes, and personal experiences.
I want you to know that I’m talking to you. That Wives of Faith is for you; whether you’re facing a deployment or not. That I hope to help you through whatever you’re facing right now in your journey. And that God is good. All the time.
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