still here

yes, im still here at camp lejeune.  and yes life still sucks.  and yes i still want to go home.  in fact if any of you ever hear me speak about going active duty, or you hear me encourage someone to join the military you have my full permission to kick me in the adam’s apple and redirect me to this post.

pray for shawn and i.  we are both pretty down right now.  we are trying to focus on our time off coming up on the 4th of july, that is going to be awesome, kimberly and i may go to d.c.  (if i am not an expatriate by then.)

we are both having a hard time getting in the word, i just dont want to.  im not sure what the deal is, but devotional time just seems difficult right now, and it is not something i want to “work” at.  i was pretty sure Christianity was supposed to be freeing, but the other day i opened up to Jer. 29 on accident, and the great “Word from the Lord” that i got was just as depressing for me as it must of been for the original audience.  the Lord litterally said not to listen to false prophets who say “it is going to be ok” and “youll be home soon”  rather the Lord promised the Israelites they would be stuck in Babylon for 70 years… yay, what fun, the Lord said to them to plant gardens, settle in, and plan for the welfare of where they were.  yes the Lord promised that His future plans for them were great (29:11-13) and no im not planning on being gone for 70 years, but the here and now…they still suck.

i hope you dont all excommunicate me, but i thought i’d be real for a minute.

adam