LIFT Asking for Your Help!

“Like” it for Time would like you to make the Military Family TIME’S next Person of the Year. According to LIFT, since Time’s first issue in 1927 and through wars and conflicts a military family hasn’t been featured as the Person of the Year. LIFT believes it’s TIME to make it happen! Check out their site at the link below…

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Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

I love that these two athletes saw fit to give credit where credit is due! Way to go Jennings and Bayne giving’ it up to God!!!

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Todays’ Inspiration – Honoring President’s Day

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”
-President George Washington, First President of the United States

“I am busily engaged in the study of the Bible. I believe it is God’s word because it finds me where I am.”
-President Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States

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Did you know: Eligible Military Families Join YMCA for FREE!

A Department of Defense initiative along with the Armed Forces Young Men’s Christian Associations (ASYMCA) provides eligible families that don’t live near a military installation access to family programs and services FREE of charge at participating local YMCAs.

Eligible service members and families include:
• Families of deployed National Guard and Reserve members.
• Active-duty members on independent duty assignments, such as recruiting duty.
• Spouses and family members who have moved — such as to live with their parents — while their service member is deployed.
• Active-duty families assigned to newly established joint bases created by the base realignment and closure process. There is a limited number of memberships at these bases, either 300 or 450 depending on the location.

Memberships are granted for six month periods and can include the active duty service member three months before and after their deployment.

See Military OneSource for additional information

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Military Discounts/Offers

We’re putting together a list of military friendly companies/organizations that offer discounts or special offers to service members under our Resource tab. If you know of discounts or special offers that you don’t see here, we’d LOVE it if you’d share them with us!

Click on the “Leave a Comment” link below to share your military discount tip and a web site address where we can get more information. Thanks for sharing!!!

give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.
-Luke 6:38

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Life on Fast Forward, Feeling Overwhelmed?

At times it can feel like life is on fast forward and events that seemed weeks away are all of the sudden upon you. It’s moments like these when life can feel overwhelming, the to-do list is piling up and it seems like the last thing you have time for is slowing down and taking stock of what really matters. However, these are the very times when you should slow down and reevaluate what NEEDS to be done and to prioritize the items on your to-do list.

The first part of Psalm 46:10 tells us to “Be still and know that I am God’. I’ve read that the word still in this passage translated in Hebrew means to “let go”. I know when I become overwhelmed by the items on my to-do list, I feel anxious and tense and the last thing I want to do is stop and remember to give it all to God. Remember though, that our Lord can’t help you with all that is going on in your life if He can’t get you to sit still long enough to tell Him what you need.

Once you sit still long enough to turn your laundry list of things to accomplish over to Him, He can start to help you by taking your burden. In Matthew 11:29-30 Jesus says “Take My yoke upon you, and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light”. If you didn’t know (I didn’t either until recently), a yoke is a device that has a double “U” shape for oxen to wear around their necks to pull a heavy load or to plow a field. By Jesus telling us His burden is light, He’s saying He’ll do all the hard work as long as we allow Him to guide us.

I would like to challenge you (I’m taking this challenge right along with you), the next time you feel overwhelmed by what needs to be completed, take a moment to pause and hand your to-do list over to God. Allow Him to guide and direct you and to help ease your burden. Before you know it, the priorities of what’s really important, what must get accomplished, will be clear.

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American Flag Etiquette Poll

More than 35 of you have give us your opinion on this Flag Etiquette Poll! If you haven’t taken this ONE question poll take a moment to let us know how you feel?!

What would you do? Take a moment to weigh in on the American Flag Etiquette poll below.

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Spouses Can Nominate Boss for Patriot Award

American Forces Press Service

ARLINGTON, Va., Feb. 10, 2011 – Spouses of National Guard and Reserve service members are invited to nominate their employers for the Patriot Award, following a recent expansion in the program, announced yesterday by the Defense Department’s Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve agency.

Nominations for the Patriot Award were previously open only to Guard and Reserve service members to nominate their employers.

However, after learning of the growing number of employers with supportive initiatives for military spouses, ESGR added nominations for spouses’ employers, who will receive their own DOD award, the only one of its kind for military spouses.

Employers of military spouses are not legally obligated to provide special support, but Guard and Reserve spouses often share the challenges that go with military service. Child care, managing the household, and work schedules often have to be adjusted when a military spouse deploys.

Military spouses value the cooperation and encouragement of their employers just as much as those in the Guard and Reserve. The expansion of the Patriot Award honors flexible employers and is the only DOD-sanctioned award designated for spouses’ bosses.

The nation has relied heavily on Guard and Reserve service members during overseas military operations over the past decade. Reserve component members have deployed and fought with active-duty troops. Unlike spouses of active duty troops, Guard and Reserve spouses often don’t live near a network of large military bases. In many cases, an employer is a spouse’s strongest support community.

Spouses already have begun submitting nominations. Robyn Gellerup, a Wisconsin mother of three, works as an office manager for a construction company showroom.

“While my husband was deployed both times, [my employers took] care of us like we are part of their family, from mowing our lawn, plowing snow from our driveway, to performing maintenance on our vehicles and home,” Gellerup said. “It gave my husband peace of mind knowing that if something goes wrong I could just pick up the phone and they’d be there.”

All spouses of Guard and Reserve members are eligible to nominate their employers. Nomination forms are accessible on the ESGR website. Each nominated supervisor will receive a Department of Defense Certificate of Appreciation, presented by the spouse’s employee or a volunteer from the ESGR State Committee.

Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve is a Department of Defense agency established in 1972 to develop and maintain employer support for Guard and Reserve service. ESGR advocates relevant initiatives, recognizes outstanding support, increases awareness of applicable laws, and resolves conflict between service members and employers.

Paramount to ESGR’s mission is encouraging employment of Guardsmen and Reservists who bring integrity, global perspective and proven leadership to the civilian workforce.

For more information about ESGR Outreach Programs, or ESGR volunteer opportunities, call 1-800-336-4590 or visit the agency’s website.

U.S. Department of Defense News Link
Patriot Award Spouse Nominator Form

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Today’s Inspiration – Strength

There are without question, times in the lives of Christian military families, when they need to draw STRENGTH from God. For Today’s Inspiration I thought I’d share a few of my favorite verses with you about STRENGTH.

What are your favorite verses about STRENGTH? We’d love for you to share them with us in the comment section below.

Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. Matthew 11:28-30

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” Luke 10:27

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.” John 8:12

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Wounded Warrior Project Asking for Your Help!

The Wounded Warrior Project is asking for your help letting the White House know that they must honor their commitment to the families and caregivers of our wounded warriors. January 31st was the deadline that President Obama set into law for these families and it seems now that help and resources could be more than a year away!

The Wounded Warrior Project is asking that you send a message to the White House on their Facebook page. Instructions and a suggested message appear on the Wounded Warrior Facebook page as well. Click on the link below and it will redirect you to their page.

Wounded Warrior Project on Facebook

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