Reunited…
One small hole in the blogosphere has been filled. Husband and wife, fellow Lutherans and fellow MOB’ers, Josh and Liz, were reunited this weekend in Grand Rapids. I won’t pretend to know what it would feel like to be separated from my husband (or any loved one) by war, so I’ll just post Liz’s updates as she posts (which hopefully won’t be too frequent in the near future). She did post this photo and these links, so I am sharing them with you.
Liz writes…
Josh is the one carrying the guideon or “yellow pennant thingy” if you are a civilian.
A few days earlier, Liz wrote this gem:
Welcome home sign making materials… $60
Appropriate clothes to properly welcome ones husband home in… (What Josh doesn’t know won’t hurt him.)
Seeing one’s husband for the first time in months… priceless
Some things in life, money can’t buy… for everything else there’s BAH.
Now, if you will excuse me, I have to see after a soldier. He was out past curfew. Some lame excuse about orders being extended. So I said, “Well, if the Army ordered you to jump out of a perfectly good air plane…” And he said, “Yeah, used to be a paratrooper…” Still, out past curfew is out past curfew and means he needs close supervision until he learns better.
Thank you, God for the safe return of my husband. Julia Cory says it best:
We Praise Thee, O God, Our Redeemer Creator
by Julia Cory
“We praise Thee, O God, our Redeemer, Creator,
In grateful devotion our tribute we bring;
We lay it before Thee, we kneel and adore Thee,
We bless Thy holy Name, glad praises we sing.
“We worship Thee, God of our fathers, we bless Thee;
Through life’s storm and tempest our guide have Thou been;
When perils overtake us, escape Thou will make us,
And with Thy help, O Lord, our battles we win.
“With voices united our praises we offer,
To Thee, great Jehovah, glad anthems we raise.
Thy strong arm will guide us, our God is beside us,
To Thee, our great Redeemer, forever be praise.”
Congratulations, Liz and Josh!!!
