**There is no appointment that is not divine**

a blurry picture of david helping hold up the flag at Iwo Jima. He and Sam stopped their on their way back from a funeral/memorial service of a friend of theirs that lost his life in Iraq by a road side bomb.

Close up of the statue.

David infront of the MC museum.

Well it is 11pm on a sunday night. Usually i have NO problems on a sunday night going to bed EVEN if i did take one, two or even five naps on a sunday afternoon, but tonight is different for some reason.? I heard once that if you have trouble sleeping at night, to write in a journal before bed so you are able to get all your thoughts out of your head so you can lay without being restless or anxious about things that happened or thoughts you have about tomorrow. I did this a lot in our first year of marriage. Mostly because we had moved to North Carolina and i didnt have any friends to talk with on a normal day to day basis so journaling my thoughts helped me more, and im SURE i saved my husband from hearing all my silly girly nonsence jibber jabber. DONT GET ME WRONG, he heard quite a bit on a normal day, but really lets be honest, I COULD just go on and on and onnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.

About two weeks ago Davids best friend Sam and i had a talk about him comming up and surprising David and thought it would be even cooler if he could make it out to be here on his birthday. Well with two weeks of planning and getting tickets and me getting things around the house ready, IT WORKED! I was so nervous that David was going to some how find out early and the surprise wouldnt work out, but BOY O BOY did it work! IT was so great to see how happy and excited and mostly surprised Davy was to see Sam in the closet hiding Friday night :) !! I am glad God worked his ways and it all happened just the way it did. Sam was over a lot when we lived in North Carolina while David and he were still in the Marines. -And when i say A LOT, i mean a LOT! ATLEAST 3 or 4 times a week and almost everytime he would endup sleeping on our couch. He became apart of our new little family it seamed like. I never could decide if he was like our pretend brother or our pretend son? -hehehe! I think every single Marine has a close married buddy that they enjoy spending time with and getting the special attention from their buddies wife from time to time as a 'motherly figure' and i think i was THAT for Sam and another close friend of Davids, Ken. In the Marine Corps their are no 'soft warm fuzzy feelings' -which is the way its supposed to be. But everyonce ina while i think the men need some little peice of home and they find it in their friends wife. Like their 'stand in mom'. There is just a feeling about being in a REAL home with someone in the kitchen making food JUST for you and knowing there is a special ingredient of Love added into it instead of MYSTERY MEAT! hehehe:) I would make sure i would make dinners especially good for the nights davy would have boys over that lived on base in the barracks . Even though thats not saying much since it was my frist year of married life and my cooking skills did not have much to say for themself, but ANYTHING was a step up from The Chow Hall. So i tried to do my best meals for the guys when they would come over. Something that didnt look, taste or smell like mystery meat. Remember school cafateria lunches? well think of that, but times that by 100 and there you have Chow Hall grub.

I recieved an e-mail from Kens sister concerning Ken and his health. David has not talked to Ken in just about a year now. Ken has always treated David with almost the respect you would give your father. Ken always called Davy "Pappy". Ken and Davy were in Iraq together for 2tours. Davy was Kens Fire Team Leader and Somewhere in between those tours they were in a situation where Davy really did save Kens life. I coudlnt tell you the details even if i knew them im sure. But ever since then Ken has always called David "Pappy". He really did look up to him and always confided in him. But like the typical guys that they are, they dont do the best of job keeping in touch with eachother like girls would do. So its been about a year since they have talked last, but David STILL considers Ken to be one of his closest friends. In this letter his sister wrote me she said that Ken is have a difficult time dealing with 'Post Marine Life' and having even more trouble with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury). She said that he is being treated at the local VA hospital and that he talks about David frequently and how much he NEEDs and WANTS to talk to him. I really think it is NO COINCIDENT that God has put this on Kens heart to feel the need to talk to David. Their are plently of counselors available at any VA hospital so the fact that Kens family is choosing to go out of their way to get into touch with Davy to talk with him is deffinetly so mistake. Today in church, a friend said "There is no appointment that is not divine" and i am really starting to understand that in my life and how God puts HIs people in the right spot at the right time. I am just praying that when the two of them do get to talk, David will not only help him with his PTSD but EVEN MORE help him with his walk to find God and to help uncover Kens need for Him as his Rock and Shelter. I have such a heavy, compassionate, and big heart for ALL Military men, women, families and all veterans. I know Davy was only in for 4 years but the saying goes 'Once a Marine ALWAYS a Marine'. And the Marine Corps motto is "Semper Fidelis" or "Semper Fi" wich is Latin for 'Always Faithful' and with Marines i believe that they carry that in them for the rest of their life. It seams that God always brings Marine verterans together to 'Never leave a man behind". I just pray that God would use David as a vessle to bring Ken Gods words so that he his not left behind for eternity, and can look forward to seeing a day where PTSD will not conquer his mind and TBI do not conqure his body. It is no mistake that out of all the people Ken could be reaching out for, it is DAvid. Please pray that David will be able to help Ken and deliver the message of God.

Please pray that God would use us and our talents to the MAX of our abilites to help bring the glory to Him. Especially that God would equip us with the tools to defend His name and to spread his word.

*** I LOVE MY MARINE ***