Kristen Strong
One Sure Fire Way to Change Your Landscape
by Kristen Strong
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When my family and I arrived at our new home on an old military base, I sighed hard at the color palate of brown, brown and brown. A dirt-for-a-front-yard house in the desert was now our home, and I wondered how my green-and-tree-lovin’ self could thrive in a seemingly bleak environment.
The answer, I soon found out, was through people. While the climate was arid and dry, the landscape overflowed with abundant, blooming comradery. That is the gargantuan blessing of living on base. The ready made community lends itself to infinite relationship-building opportunities. Lifestyle similarities were all I needed to grow friendships that provided joy, support and accountability.
I love how the NLT describes the benefits of living life together:
“A person standing alone can be attacked or defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer.” Ecclesiastes 4:12
God’s Word says when we have each other’s back, we conquer.
Sweet gals, as you begin The Husband Project book club, may I encourage you to seek out your own accountability partner? Someone with whom to bounce around ideas, share your heart, and wildly cheer out loud? Perhaps you live in an environment where life’s circumstances make finding an accountability partner easy. Perhaps you live where you must intentionally hunt for one. When thinking about friends from your church, neighborhood, or familiar on-base organization, could you ask the Lord to open the eyes of your heart to the possibilities in your surrounding landscape?
Whether your marriage climate resembles a desert or not, we all have room for improvements. Let’s grab a partner and jump in tandem as we fall into God’s grace allowing Him to work a new thing in us and our marriages!
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Where might the Lord be leading you to find an accountability partner?
I’m doing to project with my MOPS group and will be accountable through them and my friend Kaye.
I am doing this book club with friends of my MOPS group in Heidelberg, Germany. My friend Nicole Willis is my accountability partner.
So glad we are up and running. Can’t wait to hear who you are holding accountable!
I just sent out an e-mail to the women on campus, inviting them all to check out the book club and asking if anyone would like to be an accountability buddy with me…so we’ll see!
Okay, got a taker! Esther, the mother of one of my fabulous English II students, will be my Husband Project traveling buddy!
I just sent out an email to my MOPS leadership team and am really hoping several or all of them will do this with me. So excited for this opportunity to bless my husband and our marriage!
I’m excited right along with you, Melissa!
My cousin Tracey told me ALL about this. She lives in California and I live in Tennessee. So, through phone calls, emails, and text, she is mine and I am hers. I GOT YOUR BACK TRACE!!!! LOVE YOU!
Are you Tracey Garcia’s cousin?? If you are, she told me she was going to invite you and I’m so glad you’re doing the project with us! (And if we’re talking about different Tracey’s…I’m STILL glad you’re doing the project!!) Many blessings to you
Who’d like to be a partner with me?
Hi Pattie,
I live in California right now. Is there a way we can get connected without posting all our info? If not, I will gladly share my e-mail.
I would like to be your partner. I was looking for an accountability partner as well.
Comment on my blog and we’ll figure it out. I’m in Alaska so you & I will only have an hour’s time difference–yay!
(Click on my name and it’ll take you to my blog–forgot to add that!)
I live in Alaska as well. Where are you?
I’ve encouraged some of my friends to take on this adventure with me. So far two have agreed, my best friend and another mom I’ve met through my new MOPs group. I’m so proud of my bestie Nicole for taken on the task of “ME” from half a world away! LoL
One beautiful aspect of this book club is accountability can happen from across the room to across the globe. Love this beautiful beyond-borders community!
So very true! The military may separate us from many we love, but it doesn’t stop that love from growing! If anyone else from Twentynine Palms, CA is participating, please send me a message maybe we can get together over coffee and chat on our progress
My military MOPS group is doing the book club together and my accountability partners are my Co~Coordinator, DGTL and Liaison.
Yeah!
My accountability partners are three very special ladies from my MOPS group!
I invited my sister, Erin.
I am doing this with my MOPS group and will be inviting my sisters-in-law: Ruth, Patricia, Colleen and Erin.
I’m going to invite my cousin, Christina!
I’m doing this with a HUGE chunk of my MOPS group here in Germany (so excited to have them all on board), but Shannon is going to be my personal accountability partner. She will definitely keep me motivated
i am doing the Husband Project with my dear friend in Washington state, and two additional friends-Ruth Gonzalez and Marie Stallworth. We are all military spouses and looking forward to the project and serving as each others accountability partners.
Apologies, my name is Deborrah not De irfan. My iPad wasn’t cooperating
i am doing this with MOPS but my sister will be my accountability partner.
I am doing the project with my mops group and will be staying accountalbe through my sister Amy.
Who wants to be my partner??
I have shared this with my cousins and friends. I do not have an accountability partner at the moment… I’m so excited to see this get started!
Holly, would you like to my my partner?
My accountability partner is my next door neighbor and fellow MOPS FL Laurie, and I’m sharing with every Military Mom I know!!
My accountability partner is going to be my fellow military wife, Heather. Though we are separated by 1,000 miles, our goal is the same. ; )
“Though we are separated by 1000 miles, our goal is the same.” Love that, Shannon.
Can’t wait to check out the book! My girl Shannon is my buddy!
I am participating in this study with our MOPS group (Heidelberg MTV MOPS) and am looking for an accountability partner, so if you’d like to pair up with me let me know
I’m doing this with several MOPS & PWOC friends. BUt, personally accountable to my best friend. Even though we’re an ocean away! Email, text & phone calls to stay in touch each day
Day 1 under way; my accountability partners will hopefully be Crystal and Alison. Today will be an interesting day as it’s Columbus day so my DH is getting ALL the downtown he wants. Kids are at school and I have conceded to watching his favorite outdoor hunting channel for as long as he likes. (well, until the kids get home and dinner gets started). Tomorrow, lacking some creativity….hmmm
Kristen, your man has himself a good, good woman.
So glad you’re taking part in this!
I am doing this one on my own. I don’t have an accountability partner yet.
I like what you guys are up too. This type of clever work and reporting! Keep up the terrific works guys I’ve included you guys to my own blogroll.
I’m doing it with my friend Dana!
I’m doing this project with some members of my MOPS group in Heidelberg Germany!
Wow, the women stationed in Germany are representin’! Way to go!
I am doing this with my good friend Mary Lou (I hope, she hasn’t answered me yet). She has the book and lending it to me tomorrow. I can’t wait to read it
Accountable to my Mommy’s of Ft Irwin Group (=
Doing this one on my own in between my online college courses.
Wow Trish – Good for you!!!
i am doing this with my friend and SIL Aimee along with the other MOPS moms at DMAFB
I saw this through the MOPS page on Facebook. So I will be doing this will the MOPS ladies here in town. =)
I am doing this with my Heidelberg MOPS group and Jane is my partner.
My accountability partner is Kelli! She can definitely relate to what I am going through since we both have little babies and our husband’s are very busy military men. I am so excited to do this project since my husband is deployed and actually returns somewhere around the 5-7th of November. His coming home will be a great end to this study. All you wonderful ladies are in my prayers!
I am doing the accountability thing with Jacqui Winchell and Kristen Hopkins…..
I’m doing this project with several of the other moms in our MOPS group are as well! So excited about it!
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I am doing this project along with my MOPS group & have invited 3 friends to be my buddies in this project: Londa Scott, Cara Shepard, & Janell Garwood.
I’ve got an in-town girlfriend named Holly as one partner and another friend via phone and email named Andrea! I’m super excited that they want to bless their husbands too!
We are doing the book club through our MOPS group. My friend Heather and I will be accountable to each other.
I’m going to ask my friend Kelly since I found out about this from her in the first place. Of course I’m trying to get a few oters from the base going on this as well. We are stationed in Spain.
I am going to try to get my friend Connie to do it with me.
I am doing this project with my girl friend Kim Boucher.
I’ve asked a couple people! Waiting to hear back
I was in attendance at the MOPS 2011 Convention- and heard about this happening this fall, but I was just saw a friend’s post regarding this on FB. I will be letting all my MOPS friends (who are military spouses) know about this first thing in the morning, in hopes to get several on board with me!
im going to invite my dear friend Donna Lynn. We have both been through a lot supporting our husbands military careers and raising a family simultaneously. She has been a great source of encouragement and inspiration to me.
My partner is my sister.
Usually I do not write on posts, but I would like to say that this site really forced me to do so! Thanks, very good site
My accountability partner is Tara, a military spouse who is my neighbor and friend. I am hoping that together we can grow towards God and closer to our husbands and create more peace in our lives!!
I am doing the project with 2 military wives I know. One Sarah I was stationed in Ohio with and now Victoria I am in Alaska with! So excited to be doing this!
My accountability partner is my Bestie Amanda S.
I am doing this with my long time friend and fellow military wife, Celena J.