WOW! This whole blog site is completely different since I last posted. This may take some getting use to. It seems as if once I figure a format out on any website, the creators go and change it all around on me.
This morning as I was getting ready for my husband to pick me up for org. day, I did a lot of thinking. I'm not sure where it all came from, but I'm pretty sure God has his hand in it.
Lately a lot has been going on within my husband's unit and with my husband personally. He hasn't been home much due to them tasking him out with everything under the sun. Add that to the fact that he's the only one licensed to do ammo, and he has a soldier that he is constantly having to babysit for. I guess they just figure that they know he will get the job done effectively without having to explain anything to him, so they throw everything his way. There's a lot more to the story, but I won't go into that. With all this going on, I have become bitter with this unit for keeping him at work longer than necessary, and longer than most everyone else for that matter. I've also become irritated at the soldiers that keep screwing up and forcing my husband to be gone even longer so he can babysit for them.
This morning it hit me. If my husband is having such a bad experience with this unit lately, what's to make me think that they aren't all having a hard time. It's very possible that the circumstances surrounding these soldiers are just making them feel like giving up. My husband has the benefit of having a wife and kids to come home to at night. He has a wife that's always available when he needs to talk. Some of these soldiers don't have any family around at all. Of course they have their army family, but sometimes that's just not enough. It's not the same as having a life long companion that you can always count on, or like having a family member that you've spent a better part of your life with. Plus, I've noticed that it's really hard for some soldiers to separate their army life and their personal life. After all, they live army on a daily basis.
Once again, I've been reminded that we go through things to better us as individuals. These last few months haven't been the easiest, but I have learned a lesson. I'm not going to spend my time being angry and frustrated that things are so messed up with this unit. Instead, I'm going to pray for those who are making it unbearable at times. I'm going to pray for those soldiers that seem to be having personal issues that are leading them to behaviors that take my husband away from home. At the end of the day, he is coming home to his family, however late that may be.
