Sara posted this wonderful vlog of encouragement for you and for me TODAY, and I want to say how grateful I am to have someone like her as a leader and role model! People like Sara are an invaluable resource for us military wives. Thank you to Sara for braving the vlog world to share the Good News!

Struggle does seem to be an over used word in my day-to-day conversations with family and friends. I oftentimes find myself feeling like I struggle just to keep up with daily life during deployment and when my family and friends wonder how I do it all I find myself telling them that I actually do NOT do it all. I recently told a close friend that there are things that don’t get done, there are things that I have to say ‘no’ to and there are things that just aren’t realistic during a deployment. The house isn’t going to be sparkling clean and the laundry will pile. The dog usually needs a bath and that outside light bulb needed replaced a month ago. I worry about our daughter and her separation anxiety. Conversations with friends are frustrating because they don’t understand military life. All things come to a screeching halt when my husband calls home. There are cookies to be baked for the preschool teachers TOMORROW and it’s after 11p….shall I go on. I’m sure you can make a nice list for yourselves.

Then I look at the next struggle and something inside of me remembers…I need to just let go. Like Sara said. And I do. And it’s wonderful. And then I can tell my family and friends that God is my strength in weakness. His glory is revealed through my day-to-day. Even though deployment is hard and there are struggles, I don’t have to stress about doing it all. I can trust God to care for the needs of our daughter. He will do it. He will take care of everything on “the list” if I will just let Him.

I’m finding the more I let go and the more I give it over to God, the more I am able to discover God’s blessings and truths during deployment. It is hard. It is a struggle at times. And so I take heart in this:

A pastor once told me, “God doesn’t call the equipped. He equips the called.” We have been called to serve and God will provide us with EXACTLY what is necessary to serve. Wasn’t Moses given everything he needed to lead God’s people out of Egypt?

Sometimes it’s a small whisper of a reminder to trust in God.

What helps you let go? What is your whisper that reminds you of God’s promises?

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