My journal entry reads...

Have you ever felt like a caged bird? You're trapped, alone in a place with bare walls. Your own songs are your only comfort. Sometimes you don't even want to hear yourself sing. You're tired of being caged.

 Even if a window or perhaps a door opened up... you wouldn't be able to escape to freedom. You wouldn't be able to fly high up into the sky and soar happily. You can't fly. Your wings have been clipped. Clipped to keep you as you are, a caged bird.

 Your songs may not comfort you at times but someone else loves to hear you sing. Someone else loves to see you throughout the day. Someone else believes that you like being a caged bird.

Your wings are clipped so you feel hopeless.

A bird that can't fly is flightless. But a caged bird with hope is hopeful.


After Words: Sometimes I feel like a caged bird. Looking. Waiting. Hoping. For my day to fly!

Another holiday, another reminder

You don't realize how many American holidays we have dedicated to the military unless you're going through deployment like myself. Every holiday is another reminder. He isn't here, he's over there. (At least that's how my son's children's One Source picture book explains deployment.) We sleep here. Daddy sleeps over there.

I'm starting to dislike the different holidays we celebrate as Americans. Of course, I'm all for honoring our military with holidays. But there's Mother's Day, Father's Day, Valentine's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Labor Day to name few. On these days, families get together and memories that will be talked about for years and years are created. He isn't here to make memories, to laugh, to smile, to see his son potty for the first time. This is the sacrifice that so many American military men and women make to fulfill their duties to our country. This holiday is another reminder...

Wise Words

Time can't be rewind or fast-forward. You can only live in the present. That time is all the time you have. Don't depend on the time you may have tomorrow. That time may never come.