You may be asking what stop… the one that is on the way or even a little out of the way on a long road trip to see an old friend… make the stop even if that means the added hour or two… it is worth it every time. We live in a world that is moving a million miles a minute… we forget to stop…we forget to see the world around us… we forget to catch up with our battle buddy friends because we do not just stop…

My girls and I drove down to Florida and we made the stop… We hugged life friends around the neck and ate the dessert. In the military community there is so much around the goodbyes… that we forget it is really only see you later if we make the stop… If we decide to reach out to those friends from old duty stations to look them in the eye to really see how they are… Making the stop means seeing and being seen… It means laughing at old stories. It means talking about the hard hills we have climbed while being part. It means hearing about how God came through once again all because we made the stop…

Satan hates when we make the stop… He knows it will be joy filled and soul filling… It will take away the loneliness you may have felt or be feeling… The enemy begins to fill your head with all the reasons why you can not make the stop… it will add too much time to the trip… they do not want to see me…

Make the stop… So what if you get there an hour later than planned… Your soul will be filled to the brim by making the stop….Your heart and soul will thank you.