Wow. If that's not your reaction to this news, it most certainly is mine. Last week at this point I was drifting rather aimlessly. Today, I have a very definite purpose. My life has a direction now. If you'd told me even 3 weeks ago that I'd make the decision to join the armed forces I'd have trembled a little bit before laughing in your face. Since last Wednesday, my thought patterns have completely changed. I don't spend my days alternating between searching for a job and wasting time anymore. Now I spend my days getting ready for the task ahead. Basic Training is going to tear the skin off of me if I don't get my body and my mind physically toned. Now I spend my days job searching, making arrangements, getting more information, and talking to the recruiter. Care to eat properly and exercise have become much bigger concerns. Tomorrow night I'll be taking the ASFAB and then next week I'll go to Fort Lee to get my physical done. After my physical, I'll officially be in the Virginia National Guard. Then I have up to 360 days to tell them I'm ready to be shipped to Recruit Sustainment Program (RSP) and then, immediately following that, Basic Combat Training (BCT). I'm shooting for getting ready by December. I have an unbelievably difficult path in front of me but my God has brought me through trials before and I'm convinced that the only difference between what is before me and what lies behind me are intensity, uncomfortability, and physical pain. "The horse is prepared for the day of battle, But deliverance is of the LORD." The LORD will remain faithful in this too.
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