Intro

Intro

Week #1

Scripture Reference:  Psalms 34

My husband and I have been trying to conceive for most of our marriage. I always grew up thinking I would get married and have children.  My mom was done having children by the time she was 27yrs old and I always assumed it would be the same for me. Well, I am 31yrs old now and I don’t have children yet.  I have a wonderful, amazing husband, but we don’t have children.

                This throws a major wrench into the idea of how we wanted to live our lives. We assumed I would be a stay at home mom. So, we took matters into our own hands and started fertility treatments. I have endometriosis so we started with treating the problem. It’s something that we are still treating and I recently had to make the decision to go on birth control again to handle the pain. To treat the endometriosis I’ve done five months of Lupron , numerous rounds of birth control and three surgeries. Then you add in fertility treatments and we’ve done 4 rounds of clomid, 4 rounds of IUI and an IVF cycle. This has been a long journey. One that I wouldn’t wish on anyone, but many women all around me are going through a similar situation.

                The question is: how do you cope when your dream of having a family seems dead? It is simple, really. Okay, a simple concept, but much more difficult to walk out. I am not saying I have been perfect through this walk. In fact, the more we go through this blog, the more I will show my imperfections and the imperfections of the women in the Bible who have gone through the same infertility journey. God doesn’t need us to be perfect; He needs us to trust Him. So, the answer is this…The Bible doesn’t promise that life will be easy. The Bible promises that we will have troubles, but the Bible also promises that God will come to our rescue. (Psalm 34:19; John 16:33) Instead of focusing on how big you may think the problem is, we need to train ourselves to focus on how big our God is.

WEEKLY ASSIGNMENT:

First things, first. Let’s get our focus onto the good things in life. I was complaining to a friend once about this being the hand that was dealt to me. I said it was a stinky hand. He reminded me that I was dealt a great hand; I just got one stinky card. When I actually looked at my life, he was right.

What are the positives in your life? What are you thankful for? Get your focus on those things.