Tragidy at Fort Hood

While I may not be a Army wife, I am a Navy wife and this affects me because it is a military base.  When an horrific event like today happens the different branches of the military become one in standing together for those who were gunned down.  The tragic events that have unfolded today at Fort Hood are absolutely awful.  Our bases are supposed to be safe and secure from attacks and today that wasn't the case.  Please pray for the families of those hurt and killed during the horrific events of this day.  I truly hope nothing like this happens ever again on any other base. 

Lessons

There have been many events in the last few weeks that have impacted our lives in ways that we still don't fully understand.  One earlier this week is a lesson I'll never forget.  I was litterally at a crossroads of choosing to continue on the stance of letting the PC (political correctness) group continue to have power or taking a stand that would quite literally change my life forever.  I took a chance and stood up for what was right and over night my life changed.  For days I was wondering if I made the right choice, even though I knew I had Jay's support in the choice I made and his full backing, until today.  All day long at church one lesson after another, one speaker after another just resonated with me and the choice I made.  The Lord made it quite clear to me that the choice I had made was the right one and that He will guide me in this choice as well as give me the strength that I will need in the coming months. 
The choice: Stand up against those who feel religion has no place in this country.  Stand up for religion was my choice.  For too long the PC group has said that the constitution states freedom from religion, well that is a lie.  In the Bill of Rights article 3 it states: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I took a stand and have already paid a great price.  I have been attacked for the last several days for my stance and lost a few friends along the way.  But that was a price I was willing to pay to do the right thing.  I KNOW that I made the right choice, the Lord helped me see that quite clearly today.  And its a lesson that will change, and has already started to, my life and my family's lives for a long time to come.

Food Storage

I know many of our family do food storage as do we.  Well today in church a site was given that gives great information about doing gardening and food storage.  http://www.providentliving.org/  It is a LDS site which has incredible information about storing food and for how long and everything.  The gardening secion looked great too, especially since Jay wants a garden really bad and this gives some great tips as to how we can do one on our back porch in planter boxes.