Keep Your Courage

There's so much that we go through without our spouse in the military and when they come back home both he and us are different.

If you feel like a different person than when you first started out in this military life, if your husband feels like he is a different person than when he started out in this military life, if every time he comes back home kinda feels a little clunky as you re-learn how to work together again, share responsibilities, share your life.

This episode is for you.

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We are strong military wives, right? Strength, though, can look many different ways. And sometimes- being strong is knowing when to admit you can't do something on your own. Sometimes strength looks like vulnerability, asking for help, admitting you need help, allowing help to come in and help hold you up. Which, I know, can be super hard. I'll tell you all about how in this episode.

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In this military life, it can feel like you are always the one that has to adjust, laying your desires down for the greater cause. It can leave you feeling like you are the supporting actor in somebody else's story. I've felt my soul a little faded from putting myself last for the sake of the military, but I have also felt myself come back alive, find that zing from doing something I, myself, love.

Listen in for ideas on how you can do the same.

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We talk a lot about making it through hard things together. How when we know we're not alone, we can get through any day.

But sometimes it's hard to know how to actually get through a day. Like, logistically, physically, literally. If this is you, you might need this one simple habit that has helped me with this very thing.

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The constant instability of military life can make it feel like we are surviving, not thriving. When I live by the principles that I talk about in this episode, I am able to handle the hard of military life with more ease. Even within the hard of military life, it's possible to live in alignment with what I value, who I am, and what I love. It's still possible. Let me show you how.

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Here we are, looking at a whole year ahead of us- all of the possibility but also, as we know in the military, all of the curveballs that we can’t even anticipate- 

What kind of person do you want to be as you go through it? 

Maybe you’re like me wanting to be able to handle everything the military life tosses at you and not have it knock you off your feet every time something hard happens.

This episode is all about ways we build that strong center that can hold us up no matter what.

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It's our final week of the Advent series. Maybe things went exactly as you thought they would this Advent season, maybe none of that happened. It's okay. You're here now. God's love shows up here, too. This is the whole Christmas story.

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We hear a name of God a lot this time of year- Immanuel- and it means God with us. As a military wife, that means a lot to me to know that no matter what we go through, God is with us. And because we have seen what that looks like, we can go and be with others. 

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We military wives know what it's like to wait for someone. Waiting for him to come back home is intertwined with the hope of relief, the hope that things will be better when we are back together. I think knowing the feeling of anticipation, of waiting, can serve us well, here, in this season of Advent. Listen in.

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A lot of us are walking into Advent with a limp. A lot of us are exhausted, threadbare, needing rest. But it’s not like world events get put on pause to allow us to be still and pause to ponder the season of Advent. It’s not like units stop training, or a PCS is halted for a little bit. The military world just keeps on rolling. My hope is that over these next 4 Advent Tuesdays, these minutes that we have together are one little way, maybe the only way, you get to pause for a bit.

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