Tomorrow we are headed home from Raleigh after a wonderful Thanksgiving with the A family.

After 15 months of constantly having our minds on trying to conceive, it is such a refreshing thought to think about going home and not having to think about anything fertility related.

This month I will not have one shot. I won't have any doctor's appointments. There won't be any ultrasounds and monitoring of follicles. No sperm collections, no inseminations and no 2-week wait. No money will be spent on infertility treatments. This month I won't even be taking temperatures and charting my cycle. Ask me what day of my cycle it is and I'll have no clue!

The only thing I am doing this cycle is daily coming before God and asking Him to do a miracle this month.

A few months ago God really started putting an interest in my heart to begin learning more about prayer. I was really struggling with why God wants us to pray if He already has a perfect plan picked out for us. I wondered if prayer really made any difference at all.

Then one day Mama told me her Bible Study at church was doing a study on prayer and she, not knowing I was really interested in studying prayer, said she would get me a copy of the study if I was interested!

I definitely was interested! I've been going through the study and God has really been teaching me a lot about prayer and why God wants us to pray.

In the next couple of weeks, as my focus is turned from treatments to prayer, (not that prayer is not a huge part of my treatments!) I intend to write about what God has taught me on my blog.

Come and listen, all you who fear God, and I will tell you what he did for me. For I cried out to him for help, praising him as I spoke. If I had not confessed the sin in my heart, my Lord would not have listened. But God did listen! He paid attention to my prayer. Praise God, who did not ignore my prayer and did not withdraw his unfailing love from me. Psalm 66:16-20

- Elaine