Wk 3-Response-Christen Kauffman

This weeks reading hit home for me. Yesterday my husband left for a missions trip to Haiti. Not only is he in Haiti, but is in a town called Prospere where there is no outside communication. He will be gone for a week. Some of you may be reading this thinking, so what, big deal, he’s gone for a week. Except this is the first time that my husband and I have EVER been separated for more than 12 hours. I have been mopping around crying for the last 36 hours. Why? Because I couldn’t just let it be.

I am holding on so tight to the fact that this week isn’t shaping out to what I wanted it to be, that I can’t enjoy what this week could be. It can be more time with my family. It can be time to get some much needed packing done, seeing as how we are moving two days after he gets back. It can be a chance to catch up with old friends. But what am I doing, literally counting the hours until my husband comes back. This chapter bluntly states that I need to, “Leave the struggles behind to come to terms with what is in front of you and move on. So, I am going to try to move on and realize that I must have faith that he is going to be fine, and this time next week I will be sitting around laughing at how ridiculous I acted. I need to just let it be.

Christen- What a powerful blog. I can understand how you must feel. My husband was gone for a few days when we were first married and it felt as if a part of me was gone too. Just as your thinking I too had to overcome my emotions and move on with my daily routine. It seems like just when you get a handle on things your life throws you a curve ball. It has done that to me as life at school is stressful with people loses jobs and me being shifted between grades only to find out that I should just wait until registration to find out my grade assignment because of my schools turn over rate. This is all happening along with finally feeling on top of things to find out I is expecting my third child. That is why I have been so extremely exhausted. I find myself trying to keep my head afloat these past two weeks. I just need to push on and think of the goal at the end of all of these wonderful and exciting journeys I am on.