SOON AND VERY SOON

So . . . half in a dream and half not . . . my closest friend, my soul twin, my amazing buddy said . . . "Hold on.  He really is coming soon."

And I wasn't really sure how to take that because when I was expecting my first child and not at all sure everything was all right, the Lord said . . . "whatever you do I will bless it, but the husband I have for you is a long time away."
 
So I relaxed some . . . but the length of time that seems long to a human being is NOTHING compared to what the Lord thinks of as a lonnnnnnnnnnnng time.

Go figure.

God's Time

And a thousand years to Him . . . well, you know . . .
Timeless

Forgive me for mentioning it . . . but sometimes He is not even funny!

Oh . . . and my soul twin showed up a few days after a voice inside my heart said, "The most important person in your whole life is coming soon.  Keep an eagle eye out."

I was walking back and forth down the hall of the first floor of the VOQ (Visiting Officer's Quarters) at Nellis AFB the 2nd to the last evening of a course where people from two different parts of my time in the AF had joined me unexpectedly . . . I was waiting for my new friend Mary to get back from a run and visiting with some other classmates hanging out in the break room . . . and these two guys in flight suits with flight jackets with their helmet bags came into the door at the end of the hallway and they were in silhouette with the big window in the door shining light behind them . . . and I knew right away they were not AF guys because the Af flight jacket and the US Naval Aviation flight jacket had collars with different shapes on the front edges . . . and I just knew . . . just KNEW . . . that the guys I had been told about was the one on the right . . .

A few moments after I returned to the break room still without Mary, in he came all sweaty and mussled and put some coins in the pop machine and got himself an Orange Crush and right then that was all the confirmation I needed and I started asking him how his day was and what he flew and what the patches on his flight suit meant and my friends just rolled their eyes at one another and breathed a few versions of "Here she goes again," amongst them. . . . and before he got outta there he had promised to give us a briefing on the F-18 because he was one of the test pilots and we had seen all sorts of USAF fighter jest and knew a lot about enemy fighter planes of course , , ,

So we saw him the next day and I even got to sit in the aviator's seat of his F-18 and then we promised ot buy him a drink at the O Club that night. 

Our last night . . .

But we ate too much and drank too  much at the Las Vegas "Something Garden"

And I had moved from my room in the Q into a kitchenette because in ten days after some time on leave in the New Orleans area and in Florida I was going to be back aat Nellis for  two weeks at out Red Flad deployment.

So about 11:30pm all of a sudden I shouted out -- "Oh, NOOOO!!!!  The Navy guy."  And they laughed at me as I ran out of there both nodding and shaking their heads at the same time.

The O Club Bar was closed . . . (week night . . . and they were about to lock the doors to the Club itself . . . and I raced across the opening between the O Club and the VOQ and started down one side of the hallway in the "T"-shaped building and about halfway there I heard his voice on the pay phone in the break room.

Big heavy sigh of huge relief.

And we walked back over to my kitchenette where the rest of my classmates still were and my soul twin held court and was just even more wonderful that I had ever dreamed.

And the theme song most associated with that night is "Peaceful Easy Feeling" by the Eagles.

Eagles

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