Thought I’d share with you what’s been keeping me away for the most part all summer long – my new Bible study, Tour of Duty: Preparing Our Hearts for Deployment! – It’s now available on LifeWay’s website for pre-orders and comes out this fall. I am so excited to share this with other military wives

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Can I take my “professional” hat off for a minute and offer a little squeal? EEEEEEEEEEE! My interview with Focus on the Family is now live on their website and will be aired today on all of their radio station outlets. I’m so grateful and honored to have been able to go out to Colorado

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A friend of a friend, Holly Smith, is the editor of A Woman Inspired. She contacted me before my trip and asked if I could write a piece for her readers and offer some suggestions on how to help encourage and minister to military wives. I was thrilled she asked! The friendship issue is one

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The following is an excerpt from Sara’s new book, GOD Strong: A Military Wife’s Spiritual Survival Guide. One of the hardest parts of the military life is the deployment. Being separated from your spouse can be emotionally grueling, depressingly solitary, and overwhelming. If you let it be that way. During our first deployment, I was

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One of the exciting things about this new book (I think, anyway) is the Bible study that goes along with it. I started out wanting to put together something simple that a military wives group could do together as they read the book – a few discussion questions, a couple of scriptures. I had no

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A military marriage isn’t easy. Fluctuating schedules, fluctuating priorities; changing goals, changing locations; time together, time apart, time trying to establish what was before. It’s tough to find a balance some days when you’re married and in the military. And it can be easy sometimes to want to look over the proverbial fence to someone

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“I’m hoping he won’t have to go…” “Hopefully this will be the last time he’ll have to be away like this…” “Surely they’ll start bringing them all home soon…” These are the comments of military wives that were echoing in my head as I listened to President Obama’s speech last night, announcing a surge of

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I’ve been thinking about writing this post for a while now (you know, in the month and a half I haven’t updated) but for whatever reason am just now sitting down at the keyboard to do it. If you keep up with me on Facebook, you know my husband has been on a TDY and

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Those of you who have been faithful readers of my blog know the issues I’ve had with getting my book, Weekend Warrior No More, published. It was signed to be published and was supposed to go to print this month but several months ago after seeing several red flags go up for me regarding the

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As the war goes on and employers wary of seeing their Guard and Reserve members leave every three to four years for deployment (not counting training times and weekend drills), violations of upholding USERRA are bound to occur. Matthew Tully, the attorney and National Guard major I mentioned in my last post,  told me there

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