In my life, God has had to be very bold when teaching me things. I guess you could stay that I’m a little stubborn or hard headed and like to take the reigns. He gently and not so gently reminds me that He is in control and His plan is always better than my own.

I grew up in a Christian home and grew up attending church. By the time I was a teenager, I had discovered that I not only attended church, but I loved church. When I went off to college, I was over-joyed to move to the ”Bible belt” where I could continue to grow. However, this is where the hard growing really began.

Like most people, I had plans for my life. I was going to lead my sorority as President, graduate from college, move back to Rhode Island, and marry my HS sweetheart (whom I had continued a long distance relationship throughout most of college). Well, in the beginning of my Junior year of college, God took most of those plans from me. I had been praying for God to lead me. Sometimes we have to remember that He hears our prayers and we may not always like the way He answers them – at least not right away. My best friend won the election for sorority president (yes… we are still best friends) and my boyfriend broke up with me (and he stated he wasn’t sure why he was doing it – believe it was because God was leading him to do so) in 24 hours. Well, there went those two items. Moving back to RI didn’t seem so appealing if I wasn’t going to be marrying Brian, which meant that 3 out of 4 of my plans were taken away. At least I still had a year and a half of college left to figure things out. Now what? I had to learn to simply live in the moment and truly let God lead me. I learned that MY plans were keeping me from God’s awesome plan. I also realized that what I thought I wanted was not what I wanted or needed at all.

” ’For I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord. ’Plans to prosper you, to to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.’ ” Jeremiah 29:11

About a year later, God introduced me to Kyle – the love of my life, my best friend, my husband, my biggest fan, my spiritual leader, and the father of our two beautiful children. Kyle was in the ROTC program and would be commissioned in the US Army upon graduation. Did that scare me? Heck yes! However, God’s hard lessons of not planning helped me to be at ease and simply to follow His plan. I could not be happier. I could not have dreamed up a better life than that which God has given me.

Being an Army wife has it’s pros and cons – like everything in life. Kyle is gone a lot, which is difficult (especially with two small children), but it gives God ample opportunities to keep teaching me. ) I hope to use this space to reveal all that He has taught me.

Thanks for reading.