A year ago, my husband left for his one-year solo tour to Korea. This is our first big separation in a long time, and although we live near family and are typically strong people, I’ll be honest and say it’s been hard. I know many of you who have endured deployments to war zones can relate to the geographically single parenthood lifestyle of extreme fatigue and weariness. We have this in common, and I’m thankful for my faith in an always-faithful God and involvement in this amazing ministry.
There have been times over the past eleven months that I have wavered in my confidence in the state of politics, economics, education and morality around us, but what I do know is that God will provide for His own. I have seen it time and time again, although in order to see it, we’ve had to go through it. That’s not the fun part of the process of learning from God.
Our three teenagers are going to be missionaries this summer and will be teaching VBS to underprivileged children, and because of sending multiple children off on a youth group trip, I was concerned about the finances it would mean for our family. In the “eleventh hour” of our family’s long year, we recently heard that all fees for the missions trip are being covered by the kids’ efforts in fund-raising over the past few months. God has again provided for a need and totally blessed us as a family, as a youth group. My oldest son’s hug showed his understanding of this blessing.
Besides tears, the first thing that came to my mind were the words of the Doxology: Praise God from Whom all blessings flow!!
