July 2018… headed to his first unit, newly pregnant, having no idea what the future would look like. Sooo many unknowns ahead.

-Would we like Army life?

-Would the cost / reward ratio be worth it?

-Would he deploy or be gone a lot?

-Would I make friends?

-Would it be hard to have a baby without family around?

-Would we have a house on post?

-Would we find a church?

Have you asked yourself these questions?!

Here’s what we prayed together as we went:

✨That God would bring us into community so that we wouldn’t be alone (despite a pandemic and a deployment).

✨That we would have grateful hearts for the things He did give us: insurance, prenatal care, a home (even it it was from the 1950’s).

✨That we would would trust his plan to take us to Texas (despite it not being top of our list) and look for the ways that he knew better!

✨That we would say “yes” if God asked us to serve out of our comfort zone.

“To pray is to enter the treasure-house of God and to gather riches out of an inexhaustible storehouse.” C Spurgeon

I believe with all my heart that these prayers changed my expectations. He answered them not by giving us a million things we wanted, but by giving us Himself!