When you're deployed you develop a routine, you go to work, you go to the gym, you talk to your loved ones and so on. As for me I'm working the graveyard shift from 11pm to 7am so I get to see pretty much the dark side of nothingness. It's no so bad actually I find it to be peaceful but eerily quiet at times. Seriously there's nothing making any sounds out here at night! I guess that's a good thing right? So my routine consists of getting off work and eating breakfast (dinner for me), talk to Renee for a while on chat (since skype is pretty slow and frustrating right now!), go to sleep for about 6-7 hours wake up, watch whatever TV series I maybe into at the time, go to the dinner (breakfast), go the the gym for about 45 min, shower and go to work right after grabbing a light snack for work overnight. Pretty exciting huh? Ha! Once you get into a groove it makes life easier out here, you know what you need to do and that makes more bearable when you know what's coming next. As for work well things are pretty slow right now but I would imagine as we begin to fly more and have more missions things will pick up at work. Overall we have a pretty good team in our shift, we all get along pretty well and we are all very mellow, well all of them except for me when I get all wired up on coffee. Haha!
In one of these past morning walking back from work I made it a point to take some pictures so you can get an idea what I'm looking at over here. I find this place very beautiful in some ways but I'm quickly reminded that there are very dangerous people out there and that I can't forget why I'm here. Enjoy the pictures!
I will try to upload more pics later, the internet is way to slow to upload them on here for some reason.
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praying for you friend.
Thanks for the update! Hope you can actually sleep during the day. Sounds pretty hard to me...
Continuing to lift up prayers!
Isaiah 53:3-5: He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
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Do you get a special Easter meal at least?
He died that we might live. Praying!
Isaiah 53:6-8 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.
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Oh what comfort these words give! Praying!
Job 19:25-27:For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.
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Know that I'm always here praying!
Lamentations 3:24-26 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him. The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
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Glad you have found your routine. The pictures you posted look pretty neat. I'll be looking for more.
Stay safe and try not to be bored!
Continuing to lift up prayers!
Zephaniah 3:17: The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
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Know that you're always in my thoughts and prayers!
Psalm 130:5-6 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
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Praying!
Philippians 2:5-8 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
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We have Jesus Christ, Almighty God, on our side, with us every step of the way! Praying!
Philippians 2:9-11 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
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You should put the sunrise over here, too! It was really pretty!
Know that I'm here praying!
Psalm 130:1-4: Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
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The passage today is a little different. But the way I look at it, life itself is a battle and the Lord doesn't change. He was with the Israelites as they headed into the Promised Land, and He's with you, helping you and giving you strength to face whatever lies ahead. Always here praying!
Deuteronomy 20:1-4: When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the LORD thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people, And shall say unto them, Hear, O Israel, ye approach this day unto battle against your enemies: let not your hearts faint, fear not, and do not tremble, neither be ye terrified because of them; For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, FRANK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't suppose they do anything to celebrate over there...wish I could get you that ipad!
Continuing to lift up prayers!
Psalm 130:5-8 I wait for the LORD, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the LORD: for with the LORD there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
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