I was recently shocked and quite frankly disgusted when I found out that a military widow insinuated rather bluntly to another widow, still in the first few weeks of her unwanted journey, that her loss was somewhat less important because of the different ways that their husbands died.  First of all, it hurts my heart […]

I have spent a lot of time angry at Michael.  It comes in stages. Sometimes I am angry at others, the Marine Corps, myself, other times God or Michael, even Frank.  Sometimes I am angry at nothing and no one…the truth is that I get angry because I don’t know what else to feel.  I […]

“See that you do not look down on one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.” Matthew 18:10 Recently I was told that soon I would have to make a choice between homeschooling my children and being a teacher. It […]

**This is heavy. I wrote it through tears and I only wrote it because it is part of a healing process for me. I write to heal. I share it because I hope my story can help or change someone else’s heart and life. I wish I could restrict the age of the reader, but […]

I just watched a true life story about a soldier who killed his girlfriend and then a few years later took his own life.  This man fought in a war and had severe PTSD.  He didn’t just say he had it, he was in military mental health hospitals more than once for treatment and released […]

For so long I have focused on what I lost…I think that it is natural to do when you lose the love you thought you would grow old with. I want to outright say the love of my life, but I have a new understanding of that because I have two loves of my life […]

I realize that it might be a bit cliche’, because it is hard not to love 1 Corinthians 13, but I have always loved it.  I do not just love the 13th Chapter of Corinthians…I love the 12th Chapter too.  I remember reading this in high school and wondering what was in store for me…but […]