The Little Workin Girl

Life seemed to stop on June 13th, when I kissed Harrison for the last time, got in the car and left him at the hotel. He was flying out to San Diego the next day to start the journey of a lifetime. Marine boot camp. He has been gone for almost 6 weeks, and each day seems to remind me that I'm without him.

   Of course its hard to have a loved one gone for months, but with boot camp you are almost completely cut off from them. My only source of sanity are the letters he sends me. That's right letters. Snail mail. Its a foreign word right? Well, I have become very accustom to it. I honestly believe at the end of these 3 months my left arm will develop carpal tunnel. I write Harrison everyday. Sometimes twice a day. Every letter makes me feel closer to him.  Its crazy how our generation is so used to texting and e-mails. All instant modes of communication. Well, its hard when I write because I imagine him reading it just as I'm writing it, but reality hits when I realize it take 6 to 9 days for my letters to even get to him and then a week for me to get a letter containing his answers to my questions. 

   As much as I am complaining about snail mail, I do have to admit it is the most romantic thing. I trace my fingers over the words he wrote and re-read every letter 3 or 4 times. There is something special about having a piece of paper that they once held in their hand.  Its not like hearing the beep from your cell phone as you get a text message, or the notification that your boyfriend or girlfriend wrote on your wall. Letters are something that can be put in a box, glued in a book, kept forever.

    Some people try to relate to the feeling I have or what I'm going through and I know that they try only because they love me, but having a loved one gone and especially because they VOLUNTEERED to put their life on the line is something no civilian will ever understand. It is a fear that I give to God daily and ask that He will have His way with Harrison and I's future. I never regret Harrisons choice to go into the Marines, I just pray that God will make me a strong enough woman to support him 110%.  I believe the attributes of the Proverbs 31 woman relate to a military wife. I desire nothing but to be a good wife to Harrison and to love Him just as Christ has loved me.

    So, as I look ahead to the next 48 days until I see Harrison, I am anxiously awaiting God's work in my life, and in Harrisons. I pray that when we reunite on September 9th, we will be more in love then ever and have a passion that is evident as the work of our Lord Jesus Christ.