Rolling With The Punches

It seems like the closer we get to giving the girls back to their mom, the harder it is. You'd think that it would start to get easier but it's not. Unexpected things just keep happening and it's very disheartening.

Did you know that one of the men who was chosen to sell guns to the Mexican cartel in the fast and the furious case uses food stamps as his source of income? Law abiding citizens who struggle everyday to get by are competing with this guy for federal help. How ridiculous! Of course you hear it everyday. Lazy people are moochers and will get what they want without working for it, or at least legally working for it. The Air Force has been our one and only source of income during our time of supporting Sarah and Hannah. We have received no financial help because of some stupid rules and yet we are making it.

The government has threatened to shut down several times, thus putting military pay at a stand still until agreements have been made. Luckily, it has never came to the point where we haven't received Josh's pay check. But I have no worries even if it comes to that point. God is my provider. He is our source of revenue and financial support. He sees our need and He fills it. I have no doubt in my mind that the reason our family is making it is because we trust in a God who is greater than any power of an economy, government, parliament, president or ruler on earth.

So yes, we are dealing with some very unexpected things right now. Money always stresses out everybody but we are OK in that department. The emotional and physical damage that the girls have undergone surpasses anything I could ever worry about. Oh and Josh is getting deployed to Afghanistan in March... This world and some of the people in it are so evil. But 2 Timothy says that God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound mind. So I'm gonna try and marinate on that. I know there is a greater purpose for all the negative in my life, even if I can't see it right now.