This is it!!

This is it~my last blog post before Basic Combat Training, and wow, I cannot believe it is time to leave. The past weeks have been a whirlwind, getting Married!, quitting my job, going to Orlando with mom and Elizabeth, getting everything organized...I am worn out!

I think that it must be easier to join the military straight out of high school-no bills, no debts to make sure will be paid, no household to care for and stress over. It is definitely difficult to get everything ready, and even now I feel like there is more that I should be doing, more that needs my oversight, and mine alone. This is the part where I have to surrender to God's will and walk away, I cannot control everything, I cannot be here to make sure things go exactly the way that I want while I'm gone, and that is okay. But because I lean towards a Type-A personality, relinquishing control is oh so tough for me to do! So this is a huge challenge, and a surrendering of my will, and it will be good for me, I know it.

It was so perfect, Paul Fowler preached on Brokenness at ESPC yesterday. He read from Daniel 4, which was Nebuchadnezzar's testimony about how God basically broke him down to show his need for Him; Paul talked about how God uses situations, among other things, to bring us back to Him-this is exactly what I am about to go through!

On a lighter note, Aaron and I went to Felix's today for my "Last Supper" :-) It was Dee-licious!! I got the Whitefish Almondine topped with Crabmeat Oscar, and a wonderful Abita beer...

I will miss you Felix's and Abita!!!


I am so thankful for all the prayers that have already been said, and all of the ones that will be said, because I will need all of them! When I started training for this, I was only capable of doing 3 push-ups at a time, (yes I know, how embarrassing), but I am proud to say that I can now knock out 25 with no problems! Can't wait to see what I'm able to do in 9 weeks...

So this blog is To Be Continued...see you in 9 weeks!