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Apr. 8, 2008
My sons
| Yesterday I wrote about the difficulties of raising children through divorce. I said that all three of my children from my first marriage have their problems. My first son, Keil, joined the Marine Corps right out of high school (his bio dad was a Marine), even though we offered to help him with college. A lot of our struggles with him came from the fact that we had a lot of rules in our house that his friends didn't have and he went to public school. He had the same girlfriend all through high school and we tried so hard to keep an eye on that situation but it seemed like everything we did was wrong anyway for him. He is now stationed in South Carolina and he says that he knows it could have been different but he has grown up a lot in the Marine Corps.
Now my second son, Zac, is graduating from private school in June. We worked so hard to get him football and baseball scholarships. He got accepted into a great college for both sports and last month with no warning at all he joined the Army Reserves. He tried to join the Marines but he has plates in his shoulders from sports injuries and they wouldn't take him. He graduates on June 4th and leaves for bootcamp on June 10th. My husband and I are just heartbroken. We really wanted him to go to college and play sports and he just through it out the window with no real explanation. He could have gone to college and then joined the Army.
The only thing that keeps me from crying and feeling sorry for myself everyday is that God has a plan for the two of them. It is so hard to stand by and watch them struggle as young adults to find their way but the military thing has got to be related somehow to the fact that their bio father was in the military. Maybe it is their way of expressing their manhood? I don't know but I trust that whatever decisions they make that God will protect them and bring them closer to Him which is the ultimately goal. I feel like I always have to justify myself to family and friends regarding their decisions. It's almost like they blame me somehow and that is hard. Most of my non-Christian friends look at our situation and want to run the other way. That is when I get frustrated.
So here's to persevering and faith!!!
I'll write about my daughter's struggles tomorrow!!
God Bless |
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