Friday, October 29, 2010
Infertility
There is no greater heartache than the inability to conceive a child. It is truly a secret sorrow that you suffer alone and in silence every month. When all your friends are having babies and celebrating new births, when your church is recognizing each new addition to the church family, when everyone keeps asking, "When will you start your family'? How do you cope?
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I know this grief very well. It had me in its grip for many many months and also years. I hated that question, "when will you start your family?" That left me thinking that my husband and I were not enough, we did not count as a family. That was and is a lie.
ReplyDeleteAs a Christian woman I began my wrestling with God over this pain. A verse that comforted me through the whys was, "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
I took God up on that verse.
Today, (with many years past) I am part author of this blog because now I want to turn and comfort others by which I received His comfort in many ways, during my infertility journey. Will you join me here on this blog?
Darlene
Infertility Coach
With the holidays approaching and children being such a HUGE focus of Christmas, the grief of infertility shouts loudly in this season. I recall something special a couple did for my husband and I during Christmas. They invited us to their home to watch their children unwrap gifts and to be apart of their family Christmas. It was so special. I felt loved and safe in the pain of watching children unwrap gifts. It hurt, yet, the pain was contained and wrapped in love and in a safe place as this family knew our heart ache and longing.
ReplyDeleteThat helped me endure through that Christmas season!
Darlene
Infertility Coach