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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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 am so excited to be speaking to the spouses this weekend at the National Guard Association of Louisiana Conference near Alexandria! We are going to be talking about keeping a strong marriage, and yesterday I sent a question out to my Facebook and Twitter folks asking what they felt was the most important thing

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I don’t think superwomen exist. I think they’re created. There are two kinds of superwomen – the Struggling Superwoman and the “Real” Superwoman. The first is the kind we try to make ourselves to be, the second is the kind we see other women as. The first type, of course, never seems to be as

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Part of last week I spent getting my son (and myself) organized as we count down until his new school year starts. I went into his room to do one thing, and then found myself completely cleaning it out. We sorted toys out he no longer plays with, pulled the clothes he no longer can

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Someone told me today that I was a very strong woman. She apparently didn’t hear my conversation last week when I was not much bigger than a crumpled up piece of paper at the bottom of my waste basket. Strength was certainly not what I was feeling at the time. I don’t blame her observation

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