Mile by mile we pass fewer trees and more tumbleweeds as the trusty Dodge truck treks further and further west. Finally we reach our town and turn left on Wyoming, the last street before our new home on an old military base. I looked wide-eyed at the barren landscape, this street absent of green all together.
I cried down that whole street right up ’til the base entrance check point. Then I cried again when I saw our house with cinderblock walls and a front yard of dirt.
“Don’t worry,” my husband reassured. “This is only our temporary home ’til one opens up in base housing.”
“Will our real house have dirt for a front yard?” I squeaked.
“I don’t know,” he replied with a sigh. “We’ll have to wait and see.”
I was a newish military wife who still didn’t know how to start over every three years. I wanted to bloom where planted, but how does one bloom in the desert? In a dirt yard?
Awesome! My feelings exactly except I’m a coach’s wife…many of the same feelings and experiences!
Yep, you know what I’m talkin’ about! Thanks for stopping by, Kristi!
I love your article “On Deserts” you shared here. I can relate well and it is very timely for me right now. God Bless you and thank you for writing this. It brought tears to my eyes and also ‘hope.’
By the way, I too, am a southerner from the deep south. ‘Yall’ is a necessary word. Living in the north now for many years, I still get stares when I start talking, and I am not a Sanguine, so it’s hard to bear. : )
Bambi, I’ve lived North and waaaay west {Hawaii!} before, and you can bet your sweet potato pie I’ve gotten a few looks myself! I just tell myself *they’re* the ones with the accent. Ha! 😉 Thank you for stopping by here…God bless you and yours!
Kristen: you have no idea how much I needed this post today. Very different “challenges” for me at a very different place in my life, but still just the right words. Bless you!
Much love to you, Dixie…
Thank you so much for sharing this today of all days!! I needed to hear this today in such a big way! The desert is a tough place to be but thanks to you today in the desert was a little better!! God has that amazing way of sending His word just when we need to hear it 🙂 just like opening the mailbox and getting that great unexpected letter!!
It would be so hard to not see grass or growth.