There's absolutely too much stuff stirring in my heart not to get it out so here I am again. I had attempted blogging with my phone while I didn't have a lappy with a working keyboard, but that's just plain wasting time, and I HATE wasting time. I do too much of that as it is, and thumb blogging just was not working out for me.

We have now been in Copperas Cove, Texas for 2 months. We're about 6 miles from Ft. Hood, where we'll be for probably the next 3 or 4 years. It seems the government has lengthened the amount of time soldiers spend at their assigned duty station. Something about money. Hmmm. That's a start, but so much more I could help them with when it comes to getting out of trillions of dollars of debt. Anyway, it seems we're in a family-oriented little town. Oh, our next door neighbors - CFNI grads. Wha???? Of all the places we could live, we end up next to people who 'get' where we came from in Dallas. We haven't yet spent much time with them since our schedules are all opposite, but it's nice to know that's who is there. Across the street just moved in an elderly couple who minister to military families. Nice folk who have offered us curtains, a desk and gave us sweet potato biscuits.

Nathan deploys for a year in September. It's coming up quickly, and I'm not quite sure what that year will look like for us. I do know I'll be taking some trips to spend time with family. We plan on getting planted in a church as much as possible because that's just so vital to survival, but trips will keep us looking forward to something until Nathan returns. I know it sounds weird, but I'm glad it'll be close to the holidays. Maybe time will go by just a little faster.

So the stirrings in my heart.

Sometime ago we decided that we (our family) had to live with eternity in mind because otherwise we're just wasting precious life. God began to convict us about living for ourselves and also began burdening our hearts more and more for what the book of James says true and undefiled religion is. We don't know how exactly all of that will keep playing out in our lives, but we want our lives to count. Really count. We don't want to again get caught up in American culture - the rat race, materialism, entitlement, selfishness, pride, the now, comfort, ease...the list goes on.

We were created for God's glory and pleasure. In America it's easy to get distracted, even by 'good' things, and forget what our purpose is. God, others. Period. We've been distracted too long, and I'm among a number of women who are done with comfort. This is going to document further our journey. It started 6 years ago, was renewed further 2 years ago, and here we are now - surrendering more and more to Jesus as He uses us to bring Him glory.