SNIFFIN: Could you tell us a little bit about what you and your family are doing in life
right about now?
HUEY: We currently live in the DC area, but in the last 23 years that I've been married to my
husband, he's an Army chaplain. We've moved 14 times.
So, we've been all over the world.
We have five children, all of whom are adopted.
And we're in the middle of another adoption.
SNIFFIN: That's a lot.
HUEY: It is a lot.
SNIFFIN: Yeah, so tell us about your faith in the midst of all that.
HUEY: Early on before we got married, God was so gracious to give me this perspective on his
sovereignty through Ligonier's ministry and Ligonier's materials.
I can't imagine living this life, walking this life for the last 23 years without a
rock solid faith on His complete sovereignty in this world.
SNIFFIN: Amen. And that enabled you to minister to other spouses.
HUEY: During a particularly difficult time.
My husband deployed to Iraq twice, and the second deployment was hard.
We lost a lot of soldiers.
And I was in Germany.
And so when you're in Germany with the military, you're part of a general Protestant congregation
and believers, people who love the Lord, but who don't share necessarily your Reformed
perspective.
SNIFFIN: Right.
HUEY: And I can remember very distinctly, being in the midst of spouses, wives, because the husbands
were all deployed, after a particularly hard series of soldier deaths. And, being in the
middle of this and realizing that my faith in the Reformed perspective, particularly
about the sovereignty of God, that the world was not spinning out of control, that He's
still on the throne, was different than everyone around me.
And because of that, I had a peace that I was able to share.
We are comforted so that we can comfort others in Christ Jesus.
And so it's been a huge, huge gift.
SNIFFIN: He's sustaining the souls of service members
and military families as they have this continuous
existence of service.
The military life presents challenges.
Maybe you could explain that a little bit.
HUEY: Yes.
So I think we often think of combat deployments as the biggest, and they are.
That's a huge stressor on a military family.
But a couple of things that I certainly didn't think about until I was living it, is after
a combat deployment, for years, you're living with the impacts of that deployment on a person,
on a human, on a soul that's going to live for eternity.
And I didn't count it up until today, but 14 moves in 23 years, it's not just you're
moving your house.
You're moving your community, your school, all of these things that you kind of began
to put down roots.
And then all of a sudden, you're up and going again.
Usually, you have a Christian community, maybe a general Protestant community, which is a
blessing for sure.
But many of those times, you don't have a Reformed community that's going to be stable
and solid for you to stand on as a family.
And one more thing, even though the combat deployments have stopped, deployments haven't
stopped.
Family separations continue to go on and the stress that that puts on any relationship.
But God didn't intend for children to be raised without fathers, and so it's hard.
SNIFFIN: What would you say to members of congregations
about how to treat those military families?
HUEY: It's going to take an effort and to open your
hearts to someone you know is going to be
gone.
Would you welcome us and know even though we're not going to be there long, we need
community?
We need fellowship, especially our children.
SNIFFIN: In what ways can the Ligonier community be
praying for and support the military?
Pray for families, relationships, military chaplains in different levels that--
SNIFFIN: Of leadership?
HUEY: Of leadership.
SNIFFIN: And influence?
HUEY: Yes, and influence, and that they would have favor in the courts of the King in a sense.
But primarily, if you're talking to a mom, I want you to pray for our military families.
So pray for our relationships.
Pray for those families who've lost a loved one, but also, for those of us who are still
walking this life that we would do it well, and that we would honor God every step
of the way.