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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A brief six-minute video devotional.

I got the opportunity to attend the Beth Moore simulcast over the weekend. It was exactly what I needed. A spiritual recharge, for sure, and I soaked it up. Beth spoke on”The Heart of our Desires” and God showed me some things this weekend I needed to see, and that I needed to hear. I’m

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I had a phone call this week with a sweetheart of a military wife who was dealing with blog fright. She is one of several military wives who have joined me in writing for Wives of Faith, but it worries her that she’s “just a reservist wife.” What if the active military wives don’t think

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I’m substitute hosting for our Wives of Faith/FMWCN radio Bible study today. The topic is “Wait on God.” It’s the final week of the study – next week, Jennifer Rothschild will be joining Shannon to answer questions about the study. You can listen live at 9 a.m. CST or to the recording after the show’s

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One of the toughest times for a military wife is the season of deployment. I don’t care how strong your faith is, how deep your relationship with God has become – you will have moments of despair, feelings of hopelessness and silent prayers that things were not the way they were.

When we were going through our deployment last year, I was determined to be the best, supportive wife that I could be. I was going to shower my husband with care packages, be sweet and loving every time he called, not mind at all dropping everything I was doing to talk (and of course I

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Wow, where did this week go! Sorry for the non-posting… between feeling a little under the weather with a cold Monday and Tuesday, juggling some writing, Wives of Faith things and studying for that all important Friday spelling test with my six-year old, it’s been busy to say the least. But I wanted to share

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From my reading this morning: “This is the way God works. Over and over again, He pulls our souls back from certain destruction so we’ll see the light – and live in the light!”- Job 33:29-30 (The Message) I am thankful this morning that God, in His incredible wisdom, uses hard experiences to bring us

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That’s the topic of a new book my friend Jennifer is working on, and she needs your help! She’s looking for your stories of how God has spoken to you. Here’s a few more details… I am in the process of collecting stories for this new book about all of the different ways that God

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