Pray for our Troops

Recently my uncle and his family visited us from California.
He's in the Marines. He's been in for about four or five years now. We had a really nice time with him, his wife, and there to kids who are two and one.
But the trip was kind of bittersweet. This was the first time that we had seen him since he came back from Afghanistan. He was there for five months and then got to come home early. That was back in May.
He goes back to Afghanistan in precisely one month....

The last time he went he missed the birth of his little girl...and this time he may miss the birth of there other little baby.


Our soldiers will almost always be in danger. Either because of what they're doing or because of where they are. We will always have a military. And we will almost always know someone that is in it. But that doesn't mean that we have to live in fear for them.
They need our prayers just as bad as anyone else does.
Maybe even more so.
Lots of soldiers are lonely, they go overseas to come back and find out that their wife left them, or some family member is dead.
Our soldiers suffer physical, mental, and Spiritual injuries. Some never find there way back.
Some don't make it back...

Pray for our troops! Somewhere a young woman's husband is dieing, somewhere a mother is crying mercilessly for her lost son, somewhere a young soldier is waiting for someone to tell him he is making a difference. Those soldiers are someone else's sons, daughters, husbands, wives, nieces, nephews, uncles, aunts, cousins.
They need your prayers!

Today, pray for your troops. If it wasn't for them, who knows, we may not even be here if it wasn't for them.

If you would like to do more than just pray for our troops here are other ways that you can help:

Help a military family. Help support some one's family while their loved ones aren't here.
volunteermatch.org

Support our troops!!
www.herobox.org

Together

It may be more fun to climb the mountain by yourself; but when you get to the top, who are going to share it with?

Today tell someone that you love them. Ask for help, don't do this alone. Their are people in your life who love you and want to help you. Don't shut them out. Let them help you.
Go climb that mountain together. :)

Starfish

One evening an old man was walking along the shoreline of the ocean when he spied a young boy. This young boy was reaching down and picking up something, then he would throw it into the ocean. Again and again this boy was tirelessly throwing and bending, throwing and bending.

As the old man grew closer he saw that they seashore was covered with starfish! They were still alive, but if they didn't get back into the water quickly they would die. They young boy was trowing starfish back into the ocean as quickly as he could.
When the old man got within earshot of the young boy he yelled out, "Son, what are you doing? You can't possibly save all of these starfish? What difference does it make to save any of them?"

The young boy turned around and answered, "No, I can't save all of them. But I can save this starfish." And he threw another one back into the ocean. "And this one too. I can make a difference to them."

As the boy turned back around and continued throwing starfish back into the water the old man realized what the young boy had meant. He leaned down and picked up a starfish and hurled it with all of his might into the water. He too could make a difference.

I love this story. The significance of one person making a difference in this large world..it never gets old! This is what my whole blog is about. It embodies the revelation that one person can make a difference.

Have you ever seen Horton Hears a Hoo? My favorite line in that whole movie is, "A persons a person, no matter how small." We are all people! It doesn't matter what you look like, what you do, or how tall you are. God loves you just the same. He died for you. We can make a difference. Just like in the starfish story, we might not be able to save all of the people in this world, but we can  make a difference in someones life.

Saving one starfish...that's a miracle.

Funny Story

For Thanksgiving me and my family went to Michigan. That's where most of my dad's family lives. We stayed with my great grandma, who lives in a neighborhood for elderly people. 

Ya know how people run over things in the road? Like squirrels? Well, while we were their a poor little squirrel got run over...many times. :( And on day me and my little sister, and our cousin Landon, decided to to rescue it from the road so that it wouldn't be able to get run over any more. Anyways, LONG story short, we used a plastic lid and a stick to scoop it onto the lid and carry it over to the little creek that empties into the pond a little ways down from where our grandma lives. I decided that we should bury it, but not a regular burial, a beautiful water burial. :p

So we kept it on the plastic lid and set it down into the creek bed. In this beautiful procession, the poor little squirrel, whom we named Ketchup on account of all the red blood, started to sink. So our cousin Landon grabbed a stick and attempted to save it! Well, as soon as he would get it back on the plastic lid it would sink again because it was soaked with water! Anyways, when Ketchup was about two feet from the pond, he fell off again and while my cousin Landon was trying to save him, he fell in the pond! And then my little sister tried to rescue the plastic lid and she feel in too! (Luckily I didn't fall in)

Yesterday night my grandma told me that the pond is full of pipes that channel the water in and out (yikes) and that a few months ago a story made the newspaper of some kids who put something in the water and stopped up the whole pond! Those grandparents sure are tattletales! LOL So hopefully we don't make the newspaper!

The whole point of this story was just to make someone laugh. So hopefully I made someone laugh, I know it made me laugh. :)