R&R

So there is something good about going on a deployment, and that wonderful thing is called R&R ( Rest and Recooperation). It gives you the opportunity to do things and not have to worry about a strict schedule or having to wake up at 0600 every morning. It is nice just to be able to do whatever I want to do. Oh did I mention that they have a massage parlor and a spa here? Well, if I didn't I have now. So, it is a wonderful thing to be able to have R&R (not everyone gets to). There will soon be some picures for those of you who want to see what I am experiencing. I haven't had the chance to get many yet, but they are on their way. As of now I am thinking about home and how wonderful it is going to be back in civilization. I will soon be home to see my loved ones. It will be a surreal but welcomed moment.
More pictures to come, I PROMISE!!!

Life is...

It is funny to recognize how wonderful life really is. It may seem at first that things could not be worse than they are. Yet when you take a step back to actually examine it. Life is good. I have so many wonderful things in my life that I know I don't deserve. I have my wonderful family, who prays and thinks about me every day. I have a loving girlfriend who spoils me more than I deserve. Most of all though, I have my faith. I have the overwhelming peace to know that I have someone that is watching over me, someone who can control everything. I have my God, I often wonder if I would be as gracious to someone like me. When I turn away from him; when I don't recognize that he is watching over me, he still does.

It is just amazing the perspective that you gain when you just take a step back and watch. There is no way on this earth that I could have gotten where I am with out the leading of something higher and more prominent. I am thankful for that and everything else that I have been gien.