Off to I-Don't-Know-Where

My husband and his team are leaving today to do a 3-week operation in I-don't-know-where!! I want so bad to know where they're taking them, but that would be against the rule. Haay, sometimes that would make me ask myself, "Does that mean they really don't trust the wives that much?" At times, I understand it. But there had been those times when I just can't seem to apprehend why I can't know where he's going. It's not like I'm going to tell the whole world about it [especially the 'bad guys']. I guess that's just how it works in the military and it's never really going to be easy to grasp something you know that has more chances of taking your love ones away from you than having them back.

He told me something last night that made me break into tears. I did my hardest to conceal my feelings, but what he said just totally, completely crashed me inside. In between of his trying to say words of comfort and assurance that everything will be all right, I remember saying nothing else but, "Please, Mahal come home!"

Is every military wife prepared for something like that? And those who have lost their loved ones in those battlefields for our freedom, were they prepared for something that would change their lives forever? As much as I want to clear my mind about that thing, I can't help it. Especially that I know about what they came there for and the kind of job that my husband does. Who will ever find it easy to take the fact in that once they go out into those 'remotely dangerous' area, they may not make it out alive anymore? I recall my grandma telling me, "Soldiers are meant to die for a cause. Their lives are not theirs to have control over with. They are bound to serve their Land at the cost of their own lives." Every time her words cross my mind, I die inside. But I have to stay strong. I have to be that tough wife he wants me to be. It's never going to be easy, but I will deal with it with all the best I can.

Today is for them! When I go to church, they will be the ones I'll be praying for for the rest of the service. I don't know how I'd begin my prayer without me bursting into tears, but I definitely will be praying for them. Three weeks is long!! We often say that time flies so fast, but in cases like this, I don't know why it feels the other way around. An hour feels like an eternity, how much more a whole day - then 3 weeks? A lot of things can happen in just a very short period of time, and these things are the ones that will change our lives forever.

Let us pray for our troops. They are out there willing to give their all for us. A short, sincere prayer for them won't take much of your time. Your TVs can wait. Your computers won't go anywhere if you leave them for a while. It won't hurt you if you put down your video games for a minute of silence for our soldiers. They are crying and hurting inside because they are far away from their love ones and they know they may not see them again, but they are putting you first before them. You are walking on this earth a free person right now because there's a lot of great men out there willing to take a bullet for you. Is it too much to ask from you to show your support through prayers?! Have you even thanked a soldier before in your entire life?! You just don't know how much it gives them strength, happiness, and how it keeps them going when they know we are thankful for what they are willing to do for us - that they are remembered and appreciated. That's all they ask out of us.

They deserve more, but they are not asking too much. Are you that busy to at least show them that you care?