Three Months Later... An Awakening...

With my overseas deployment halted to address a medical condition... I found myself the last several months in an interesting position... working for the Army full time out of Nashville, Tennessee conducting mental health assessments on soldiers having returned from Iraq... as well as assisting within a Mobilization Team sending additional medical units into the country. Much was learned, as more and more soldiers were assisted along their journey preparing to heal the other soldiers over there, or in assisting soldiers themselves to heal psychologically after their time of service had come to a close.

As I write this, I sit in the Conus Replacement Center at Ft. Benning, Georgia, a short drive west of Atlanta. I will enter Iraq soon... my Combat Stress mission will be the same, however now there is a new perspective that I have... vocationally... socially... spiritually. It is one that has prompted me to change the name of the Blog Site. For, these soldiers are not children of the war, as the title would imply. No, on the contrary, as I have talked more and more to these men and women, even in the worst of times while there, they learned to seek out the small miracles, the joys, the blessings.. and in doing so, it made all of the difference. Blessings from Baghdad, as it were.

This blog will serve as my testament to those Blessings. To small glimpses at the character of a Loving God working through the hearts, souls, and minds of the American soldiers serving selflessly their families and their country in a foreign land. Snapshots of scenes in these soldiers lives during these conflict, that prove that even in the roughest of times, we can triumph over adversity with help from the Almighty, and come out five times as strong on the other side.