No one around here has said it, but some others that I have told about Our Marine leaving have.  I don't want this to sound rude, I want it to come across with Love! 

Please don't be sorry for Our Marine or our family as he leaves to go to Iraq.  This is our calling as a family.  God has called Our Marine to serve Him and our country and He has called me to be the wife of a Marine!  Just like Our Lord calls Missionaries and Pastors He has called us.  We view our military life as a mission field just like missionaries.  We move place to place, city to city, state to state, base to base and sometimes go overseas.  In this time God puts different people with different religions and walks of life in our path to witness and minister to.  For this reason we are not sorry that he is leaving us for a short time!

See if you have read any of our previous posts you will see that Our Marine was set and went to DI school.  He would be graduating in a week and a half, but he got sick and was medically dropped from school.  We had really prayed over Our Marine going to be a DI and every turn we came to God led us there, so we didn't really understand why God made Our Marine so sick after a week of school.  We have been praying about where God wants our family to go in the Corps and here this oppurtunity comes up.  Maybe there is someone that Our Marine is to witness too?  We don't know?  This time he will be interacting with the Iraqi's in person.  The majority of these men will be Muslium.  So this could be where Our Lord wants Our Marine to witness?  We are not sure of the why's right now, but it is possible!  Something that we just went through at church was the testimony of a converted Muslium.  He shared with our church how to witness to a Muslium.  We believe that God does everything for a purpose and can't help but to think that having this "training" 3 weeks before being asked to go and interact with so many Iraqi Muslium goes together in God's Plan!

We do appriecate ALL prayers, we support Our God, Our Country, Our President and Our Marine!

God Bless
MarineMama