At the Moms in the Making conference this past fall, I attended Alicia Johnson’s breakthrough session, Fruitful in Soul. I didn’t know what to expect, but it ended up being incredibly powerful. One key takeaway stayed with me: “Go back to the place of pain, but this time bring God into that moment. Hand Him the pain you’ve been holding and release it
My husband and I have been trying to build our family for four years. Last year, God gave us two open doors – one for fertility treatments and another for adoption. After much prayer, we felt complete peace about pursuing adoption, specifically adopting siblings from foster care. After five months of intense and invasive interviews with the agency, we were
In 2018, we began trying to grow our family. After two miscarriages, I received a diagnosis of an autoimmune disorder called APS (Antiphospholipid Syndrome), which can cause blood clotting and miscarriage. My doctor added blood thinners to my protocol but I had two more miscarriages. I was so angry and confused. I knew God was good but didn’t understand why
In 2023, we found out that we are pregnant with miracle number 2! We had been trying for a little over two years and we’re so excited! But about a week after we saw our positive test, I started bleeding. We went to the ER and they did multiple tests and ultrasounds, but it was so early, they just said,
At the end of 2021, I asked God if He had a word for us for the new year. He told me “jubilee.” Naturally, I thought that had to do with fertility. This year, our seventh walking through infertility, turned out to be the hardest. We experienced our seventh loss. I didn’t understand how any of what we were going through
Not many people know about the moment that changed my life almost 20 years ago, which began the bondage of trauma that the enemy would hold on me. I was a high school senior who had big dreams of going off to college and pursuing her dream to become a teacher. In the spring of that year I would come
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