One of the least understood parts of our country’s time at war as we know it today is the transition Guard and Reserve members and their families have to make going and coming home. It’s bumpy for all and sometimes very messy for many; I’ve jokingly referred to being a reservist wife as a never-ending

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As many military families may be able to attest to, deployment is never fully over. I think the tremors of the experience can be felt months, even years later, showing up unexpectedly and in different forms than you might think. And if you know another deployment is going to occur, trying to get back on

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Hey everyone – this is a quick update to say hello and explain the absence lately… I am deep in the trenches of writing GOD Strong: Spiritual Truths Every Military Wife Should Know (Zondervan, 2010), and with that and my work with Wives of Faith, I have been a little crunched for time lately! I

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If you’re a military wife, you know about prayer. (Or at least I hope you do!). We pray when our husbands leave, pray while they’re gone, pray until they come back. We depend on prayer many times to get us through to the next phone call, the next email, the next instant message. Please, God,

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I don’t do many reviews of books. At least I haven’t up to this point. I may start. Mainly I don’t do it because every author and their sister would send me books (I already get quite a few) and I just don’t have time to read and write about what I just read. But

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