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Quotes for Life

"Pray also for me, that the message may be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel. For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should....My eager expectation and hope is that I will not be ashamed about anything, but that now as always, with all boldness, Christ will be highly honored in my body, whether be life or by death."~ The Apostle Paul: Eph 6:18-20; Phil 1:20

"Lord, I intend it to thy glory, and let no profane misinterpreter abuse it to thy diminution."
~John Donne

"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
~ John Adams

"You have enemies? Good. It means you've stood up for something."
~ Winston Churchill

"I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence."
~ Ben Jonson

"The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it."

~ George Washington

"Country music is about new love and it’s about old love. It’s about gettin’ drunk and gettin’ sober. It’s about leavin’ and it’s about comin’ home. It’s real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We’re not offended, ’cause we know what we’re all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary."

~ Jeff Foxworthy

"The most dangerous predator of liberals is the real world. They hide from it in college campuses."
~ www.imao.us

"To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."
~ President Theodore Roosevelt

"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!"
~ Edna Ferber

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in an argument."
~ Robert Frost

"I'm a Christian first and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind of "divisive" in terms of challenging the status quo and the powers-that-be of his day? Jesus Christ."
~Ann Coulter

"Feminism has nothing at all to do with being 'feminine.' Feminine means accentuating the womanly attributes that make women deliciously different from men. The feminine woman enjoys her right to be a woman. She has a positive outlook on life. She knows she is a person with her own identity and that she can seek fulfillment in the career of her choice, including that of traditional wife and mother."
~ Phyllis Schlafly

"Tolerance is the virtue of a man without convictions."
~ G. K. Chesterson

"It isn't going to bed with a man that proves you're in love with him. It's getting up in the morning and facing the drab, miserable, wonderful, everyday world with him that counts."
~ Yours, Mine and Ours

"I owe nothing to women's lib."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

~ Henry VI

"We're all born pessimists. It takes effort to be optimistic."

~ Rush Limbaugh

"True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same conclusion."

~S.S. Smith

"There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn’t mind who gets the credit."

~ Jack Dake

"If a woman like Eva Peron with no ideals can get that far, think how far I can go with the ideals that I have."

~ Margaret Thatcher

"What I felt like saying was, 'I've produced my third child and my sixth book since I last saw you. Aren't either of these things more important, more interesting, than my size?' But no - my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book; finally, something to celebrate! Maybe this seems funny or trivial, but it's really not."
~ JK Rowling

"Dear Lord
Lest I continue
My complacent way
Help me to remember
Somehow out there
A man died for me today.
As long as there be war
I then must
Ask and answer
Am I worth dying for?"~Anon
"[Judgment] comes from four sources: God, nature, diligence and conversation. Serve the first, and the rest will serve you."
~ Ben Jonson

"I think political correctness is a wonderful fad. Probably not as spiritually uplifting as the hula-hoop, but undoubtedly better for the health."
~ Waiting for God

"Our God and soldier we alike adore. At the brink of danger, not before. After deliverance, both alike requited. Our God's forgotten and our soldiers slighted."
~ Oliver North

"The way to tell the professional writers from the amateur writers is that the amateurs only write when they feel like it."
~ Jerry Van Cook

"Remember that only in cheesy romance novels is the heroine guaranteed to find true love without the risk of vulnerability or pain."
~ Dear Prudence column

"We do not fear censorship, for we have no wish to offend with improprieties or obscenities, but we do demand, as a right, the liberty to show the dark side of wrong, that we may illuminate the bright side of virtue."
~ from "The Birth of a Nation"

"Doesn't matter what the press says. Doesn't matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn't matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right. This nation was founded on one principle above all else: The requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences. When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree besides the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move."
~Captain America

"While God doesn’t promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity."
~ Tony Snow

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
~ John Stuart Mill

"I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers, and it was not there. In the fertile fields and boundless prairies, and it was not there. In her rich mines and her vast world commerce, and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits, aflame with righteousness, did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great."
~ Alexis de Tocqueville

"I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons. Let them never be Stupid Girls."
~ J.K. Rowling

Wisdom from the Great Communicator, Ronald Reagan:
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Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

Live each day to the fullest. Live each day with enthusiasm, optimism and hope. If you do, I am convinced that your contribution to this wonderful experiment we call America will be profound.

The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget...in the final analysis...that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger.

We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.

November 3, 2009

I Gotta Feelin.....

I'm back. Well, here. I never really left, I guess. But I'm here and up for air.

Thanks everyone for your encouragement and support. I really don't know what I'd do without you all and your experience.

SoldierMan made it off just fine last night - of course. I was able to take him to the hotel myself. His recruiter drove the other recruits to the hotel at around 5 yesterday evening, which of course would have robbed us of our whole evening. But he said as long as I got him to the hotel by 11, it would be fine. (Of course, I think all the other recruits were like 18...and that makes a difference!) He also gave us all the check-in paper work, even the originals. As he walked us out to the car, he kept saying, "Make way for the future Lieutenant." And SoldierMan was like, "Well, hopefully, nothing's set in stone." (The man refuses to raise his hopes about anything!) And the recruiter says, "No, you'll do great. You're the one recruit I've never had to worry about. I know you'll go all the way." ~~whatever that means~~ But anyway it was nice to hear.

Shortly before we left for the hotel. We had been up since 7:45 for some bizarre reason. By the time 8:00 rolled around that night, we were already fighting sleep since, you know, and early night wasn't exactly a possibility.

I held it together pretty well over the weekend. Sunday night, his last real night here, was hard for both of us. But it was also very special. Then yesterday, we were running around putting the final things together and making the final "goodbyes" to the family. So I was too busy to really let it sink in. Until he took off his ring and handed it to me. (He was wisely advised not to take his ring, in case he lost it - it's not like they'll stop the exercise and let you look for it! And losing 25 pounds makes that ring pretty loose already.) That was what opened the floodgates. But still, we had a really wonderful, memorable weekend together. It ended on a high note.

And now, I have his ring to keep with me all the time. I love it, it makes me feel like he's still a little closer.

I'll give a weekend wrap-up soon, when I get all the pictures from the farewell party in. And the vacation report. But right now I need to put together a grocery list. How do you grocery shop for just one person when everything comes in giant size?

Tonight I'm going out with a great group of friends. I'm excited. Really. It's going to be a good night.

**UPDATE: SoldierMan just called (yay!!) he is being sent to Ft. Sill for basic rather than Leonardwood. This is a HUGE blessing from above! Now we don't have to pay for an overpriced holiday season plane ticket for him to come home for Christmas Exodus!! I am so excited, not only that I got to talk to him already, but that he had some super good news. Just had to share. :)

9 comments:

AshleyNovember 3, 2009 at 7:14 AM
I went to USM. :) Just a slight variation of the initials.
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The Mrs.November 3, 2009 at 7:45 AM
and now the countdown to his return can begin! yay!
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AshleyNovember 3, 2009 at 7:53 AM
haha, I was slightly confused over your comment. Glad we were able to figure it out. =)
I am not looking forward to even having a need to countdown until Trevor returns. We'll see in January if I can even survive while he is gone to Basic. ;)
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JessicaNovember 3, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I've been thinking about you!!

What GREAT news that he is going to be right here!! Aww I'll say a little prayer for him every morning when I go to the gym on post. I may or may not already be thinking about going to see him graduate... I can't wait to tell Trey.

Have fun tonight and call me if you ever need ANYTHING or just want to chat :)
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MuLtI-CoLoReD SPRINKLESNovember 3, 2009 at 12:18 PM
You can do it! I am thankful for your sacrifice as well! I am from a military family so I know the struggle! You will be in my thoughts!
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KateNovember 3, 2009 at 3:12 PM
Oh goodness. All those memories of saying goodbye to the hubby before basic suddenly came back.
Going to the hotel... the tears... oh the tears!

Atleast you will see him for Christmas, which is right around the corner! :) I am very proud of the men and women that decide to enter into the military!

You two are in my prayers!
-K
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katie + bretNovember 3, 2009 at 3:28 PM
He will be back before you know it!! Sweet that you have his ring :)

xx
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WileyNovember 4, 2009 at 12:20 AM
Well done for getting this far - it sort of gets easier from here. (And harder at times, but you'll be right). And I'm super excited on your behalf with regards to his location - enjoy that exodus!
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Paula KathlynNovember 4, 2009 at 6:17 AM
Been there, done that! It is tough- but it brought Seth and I so much closer. You learn what it means to really appreciate each other :) You will make it, the first 2 weeks are the worst and then it seems like the adjustment comes. If he goes to OCS at Benning, we will be there! You can come see him and stay with us if ya need to :) Praying for you both!
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