Loving a LEO

 

Matthew 5:9 “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.”

I have been with my husband for 6 years, married for 1, & a LEO wife for almost 3 now. We have a beautiful baby girl, a dog, a cat, & we are in the process of buying a house. What a beautiful life we have been given! Every week 5-7 days a week I watch my husband shave his face and his head, he puts on his tactical pants, throws on his under armor hoodie, laces up his boots, straps on his gun, & grabs his lunch kisses his little girl and his wife and squeezes us both. As he walks away I say one last "I love you & drive safe." It is probably the hardest thing to say when he leaves the house to go to work, but Loving him is one of the:

Easiest,

Hardest,

Greatest,

& scariest Things I have ever done.

It's easy to love someone who is so selfless. Someone who will walk in front of you to protect you from the dangers that surround you. Love someone who will always put their well being last to protect you. Some one who will risk it all for a stranger.

It's hard to love someone who has to walk out the door into the world where people look at him as a bad guy. It's hard to read the mind of a man who might have seen something on his shift he just can't shake. It's hard to read the mood he will be in after a long shift. It's hard to love someone who you worry about every second of every minute of every hour they are gone.

It's is the scary the world we live in has made the people we love look like monsters. It's scary they walk the streets with targets on their backs it's scary knowing you could get the phone call. It's scary waking up and it's 2 hrs past the time he should have been home. Life gets scarier when you love a LEO.

It is the greatest feeling to love a man with such courage, respect, & love for others. A man who loves strapping on his boots and patrolling the roads our families spend their days on. It is the greatest feeling when he walks through the door the same way he left. The kisses are sweeter and the hugs are tighter and love grows so much stronger.

My husband is a father, a son, a nephew, an uncle, an officer and a best friend. It so very easy to love a man of so much meaning. It's easy to stray toward all the negative in this career path but there is so much positivity you just have set your mind on the  positive end of  thinking.

 

 Romans 13:1 “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.”