“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.” 1 Cor 13:7-8

I grew up in a non-military family of five.  I am the middle of three girls, and have always been described by my mother as her “sensitive child.”  I relate well with people, love my family, am compassionate for all types, and am commonly described in references and recommendations as thoughtful and genuine.  I cry at greetings and goodbyes, songs, television commercials, and moments of extreme happiness and sadness.  I am sensitive.

In perfect love for their sensitive child, my parents have always been concerned with my Marine Corps relationship -turned marriage. Matt was my college sweetheart, and seven short years later he’s (still) my best friend, my husband, and the father of our unborn child.  My mother is afraid for me, and often reminds me with something like “I don’t know how you do it.  I couldn’t do it –I wouldn’t want to.  And it worries me.”  I always respond, “I’m really not worried about it, everything will be okay.”

While even my parents may not understand how, and why I chose this lifestyle, I attribute their perfect love for me to my love without fear for my own family.  John 4:18 states “There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment.  He that feareth is not made perfect in love.”

While many women might find desperation in much less than three seven-month deployments in three years, living in solitude in a military town, carrying a baby with a husband who is half way around the world and fighting in war, etc. (the list goes on); I find hope that my love for my husband, and my unborn child is pure and strong.  Love is a gift from God –his greatest gift- and in God all things are good.

While non-traditional, our military marriage is blessed and very happy!  My husband and I have both had great models of family, and day-by-day build the foundation for our own.  With great happiness, I’m going to continue to be my sensitive self – hoping and praying with optimism that our marriage will be blessed with time together, that daddy will be home for the birth of our child, and that everything will be okay, because love never fails.

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