Philippians 4:13

This is one Bible verses that I as a wife of a marine, and stay at home mom of two girls live by. and it's something that helps me with all that I do.

"I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength." Philippians 4:13

I have people asking me how I do it and how I do the everyday life with all that comes with a military life. And I tell them it's all because of the love that we have as a family for the Lord Jesus. And knowing that he is with us in all that we do. I do not think that I'm a supper mom or anything. And if you know me you know that I have bad days when I about had it. Those days come when it's been days without seeing Matthew, and both the girls and I are missing him. Or when I have to go shopping and the girls both want to nap at a time that they do not nap at. I stop and pray and move on.

I was ask once how do you handle him working all the time and do it with two little kids. And when I stop to think before telling her how I did it, it cam down to me not doing it as well as I would like. So I grab my Bible and sat down and just opened it up and started reading and this verses is what I was reading. And I knew that's what I needed to tell her. And from that second on things have ran much better. I try to keep our day to day life the same with or without Matthew here. And do fun things with and without him, it helps the time go when he is gone, and makes good memories when he is here. We now have a week list of things that we do each week and on the days that we do it. We been doing it for a few months now and it's been going well and the girls know what is happening that week, with one fun thing each week. Sometime more. I do it for a full month and it works well for us. (will post each month later)

And when things happened and Matthew just can not be there we use it as a learning time. And the girls have been doing a lot of learning over the past year and have learn to love the time we get with him, or anyone. When he is something big like a Christmas party, or a Birthday we come back to Philippians 4:13 and read and we talk about how they are feeling and we have both seen that our talks have changes and that their understanding has too.

We do not always handle things like Jesus would, but we try, and keep him in our harts, minds and acts all day.