Hey all! OK, so I’m going to try doing something a little different this week. As I’ve been reading Exodus this week and the story of Moses leading God’s people out of Egypt, I’ve been mulling around the comparison of how Moses felt so inadequate in his God-chosen role and how we as military wives often have that same struggle as well.
Instead of writing about it though, I think I’d like to video blog about it. A lot of my friends are doing this now, so I thought it would be fun to try. But I need your help.
I am posting this VBQ – Video Blog Question – of the week, in hopes that you’ll answer it. On Friday (or next Monday at the latest), I’ll post my video blog and incorporate some of the responses I receive. If you know other military wives, please let them know about this. I’d like to have as much response as possible, which is why I am cross-posting this on Wives of Faith’s blog as well as my facebook and twitter accounts.
So here’s the VBQ:
As a military wife, what do you struggle with the most? If your answer is “deployment” – what specifically about the deployment? If your answer is “meeting other people” – what is it specifically that is hard about meeting other people?
I think many of us will be interested in seeing that our struggles are not so different. And in my first video blog, we will talk about those feelings of inadequacy we all have from time to time, just as Moses did, and the three truths that remind us why we are never inadequate in God’s eyes.
So comment with your thoughts and I may share them in my first Video Blog! Stay tuned! 
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The thing I struggle with the most is the deployment. You see we’ve never been thru deployment and i’m guessing it is the fear of the unknown and what we have seen it has done to others.
As a military spouse of 20 years, seeing the way my husband has changed along with the Army itself I can not help but brim with pride in what he has become both as a man and as a leader. But it does not come without a price, a price that has been paid by both myself, our children and my husband, nonetheless a price we were all willing too pay. Now it is one I pray over every single day of my life.
My struggle you ask, is my inability to help my husband with the internal issues he faces as he tries to piece back together his life after years of separation and War. As a wife, I can only do so much, be so much for my husband when he is experiencing his own internal struggle and yet, I hurt right along with him, often feeling his pain and wanting to do all I can to be able to help, to be able give more, and simply be more to the man I love. I have found that no matter what I do, what I say, how I act, it is simply not enough to ease his pain or his struggle. That is something only he, with the help of God can do…..but it does not ease how I feel, but in the end it really isn’t so much about me.
It still leaves me felling helpless and scared.
I have struggled over the years with different aspects of military life, we all do, it is normal to do so as we adjust to it, but I never thought that I, the strong, independent person that I am, would ever feel as helpless as I do today in saving the most important thing in my life, my husband, my marriage. It could be taken away from me in the blink of an eye and there may not be a thing I can do to stop it….but sit idly by and watch it happen….
Even during the times my husband has been in a combat zone, thousands of miles away from me, I have never felt so alone, as I do today.
As a fairly new reservst family, I have no idea how to get involved or meet other local families.
Joanna