There Will Never be Enough Time

 These were the words my husband said to me the day we said goodbye, knowing we would be apart for the next year.  He was right.  There will never be enough time.
  Standing by his vehicle, we put our arms around each other.  He held me and I soaked it in.  I put my head to rest on his strong chest, knowing it would be a while before I would feel his warm embrace and the safety of his loving arms.  We didn't want to say goodbye. We had to. Whether I said it right then or five hours later or the next week, I would still have to do it and face the road ahead.  We still had to walk in separate directions knowing we'd be away from one another for the next year.  We had to let each other go.
 As I held him, I appreciated over and over every little detail of our life together and the man he is to me.  I thought about what my daughter would say when he stopped coming home from work in the evenings and how I would gently explain to her why he could not go to the playground with us.  Then my mind rushed to the newborn daughter he held in his arms the night before.  When he sees her again she will run up to him, or maybe she won't because she will not know who he is. Then foolishness took over and I thought of joining the Army and or creating my own USO act to take overseas.  What would my husband do if I just showed up in Afghanistan?  He would not be happy.  He is there so we can live where we are and enjoy the life we have.  We hugged, we kissed, we traded expressions of love and encouragement and he walked away as I drove.  Then came the tears.  What sweet sorrow it is to be so in love that you could miss a person so deeply from the very second you had to leave him.
 The beauty of a shared faith is, however, that we are never apart.  The Lord will keep us close in spirit.  Our love is deeper than just a physical connection.  We are one.  Though apart, we are still together.  This separation does not destroy us, it makes us.  We learn the value of each other every minute we spend apart.  We do not take a day together for granted.  We enjoy doing all the little things side by side  because of this.  When a married couple feels there is never enough time to be together, that is a very good thing!