twins! battlemind

My bro' and his wife has twins today! Congrats Joe and Stacey and welcome Jackson and Jordan to the family. Good job.

As they were being born, I was fighting to stay awake during a seminar on "Battlemind". It was a great seminar, I was just wiped out from waking up so early and doing PT. For PT we did variations of pushups and situps. You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. You can put your body in whatever position you want, but when both hands are on the ground and you are pushing up, it's a pushup. Our rest time in between exercises is the overhead arm clap, which is a jumping jack without the jumping part. So I guess it's just a jack. Anyways, sounds easy right? Try doing 50 of them, then doing 25 pushups and have to do 50 more. I found it funny when the sgt. looked at a chaplain and said, "you like tired, get some rest". Of course that meant that he had more arm claps. Funnier now, after a while they really begin to ache.

More of the same tomorrow. Hoo-ah!

Back to the battlemind seminar. Battlemind pertains to the emotional and mental challenges a soldier faces while deployed (in combat) and coming home from deployment. What is appropriate behavior in combat is not at home, and many soldiers struggle with the adjustment. This isn't simply PTSD but existing in two separate worlds. For example, when I was in germansville, I had little reaction when I heard a gun fired. You react differently to loud booms when you are "down range" (in combat). So much more I could say, there is a battlemind website that seems really interesting.

Sometimes I'm like "what in the world have I gotten myself into?" There seems to be endless and insurmountable struggles for these soldiers and I'm dragging my family into the middle of it all! But our God points out a young soldier walking in the distance, and I find clarity.

God is faithful!