Like many hopeful mothers, Mother’s Day 2018 was a bag of mixed emotions for me. While our fertility journey made me appreciate and respect the role of “mother” more than I ever had in the past, I ached for the year I’d celebrate the holiday as a mother to the child we’d been praying for. Little did I know that
I got married at 25 years old. After 5 years of an abusive and tumultuous marriage, I was facing divorce. I was terrified, and didn’t know what to do. I was 30 years old and had no clue what my future would look like, let alone if I would even ever have children. I felt like I had no strength
In 2013 I got unexpectedly pregnant with my son. In May of 2016, I married my high school crush, the father of my son. Through this marriage, I also gained an amazing stepdaughter. June 2016, I went off birth control so we could expand our family. I found out I was pregnant in July, but in August, I went in for my first
I had the great opportunity to attend the 2018 Moms in the Making Conference. It was incredible, BEYOND my expectations! Jessica Colwell shared that she felt the earth move and saw all of us with a candle lit up inside and glitter everywhere, that’s exactly how it was and the earth DID move! I worshiped like I’ve never worshiped before.
We want to hear your story! Where has God done in your life? Your testimony could be the very thing that restores hope, strengthens faith, and reminds someone else that God sees them and has not forgotten their story.
