If this isn’t what life’s journey is about, I don’t know what is.🤷🏻♀️
Nobody could have ever told me that I would be a stay-at-home military wife, homeschooling two boys. I wouldn’t have listened. 🙇🏻♀️
If someone had predicted that I would move 12 times in 15 years (twice overseas and twice into an RV) I would have laughed them out of the room! Not this girl! I had goals and aspirations- none of which was to stay at home wiping little noses, teaching abc’s and hanging broken picture frames in government-issued housing! 🙅🏻♀️
But God had different plans- and those plans come with twists and turns, mountains and huge valleys, trials and triumphs.🎢
If I’d had my dream career, I would have never spent four glorious years in Japan. 🇯🇵
I would never have discovered that simple living suits me far better than the palatial home of my dreams. 🚐
I would never have understood the richness of community, the depth of gratitude towards our service members, the appreciation of foreign cultures, the passion for travel… ✈️
Had I not married a Marine, I might never have loved as generously, lost as deeply, prayed as fervently as a military wife is known to do. 🙏🏻
If I’d had my dream career, I would have been too busy to savor the precious and fleeting moments of my children’s youth. If I’d had life my way, I would have missed so much of what really matters in life.
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Through all this time, through all the hardships and sacrifice, through all the dreams and ambitions that have fallen by the wayside- I have not found myself. Thank God- I have found who I was meant to be. And it’s something far better than anything I could have imagined.