Just this week I rewrote our “story in a nutshell” that it located at the top of the blog. At the end I wrote a message to anyone who may stumble across my blog in need of a thread of hope. As I wrote, I felt in my heart that there was someone out there who needed hope that day.

And sure enough, this morning there was a comment, left by an anonymous reader, that she felt GOD had lead her to my blog.

While this blog has become a mixture of all things infertility and baby I do not feel God has released me from writing posts that are simply meant to bring encouragement to a weary soul walking the road of infertility.

This blog was started as a way to keep my own family and friends “in the loop” about my infertility treatments. God has made this blog so much more. It has become a journal where I have recorded some very personal struggles, sadness, lessons learned from the Lord and yes, triumphs.

This is why I decided to not abandon this blog after Little Bug’s birth and start a “baby blog”. It is my utmost desire that my life bring glory to the name of Jesus Christ no matter what life season I am in.

Because, really, that is all life is made up of. Seasons. We pass from one to the other.

Infertility is a season. I certainly don’t see my infertility as an end. It is something I moved through. Yes, I’ll always be infertile but infertility does not have a stronghold on my life.

I firmly believe that any woman who is on this road now and who has put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ, WILL move through infertility. Your life won’t always be marked by negative pregnancy tests, tears, disappointments and a pain that cuts you to your core.

And I don’t mean the way you move through infertility is by achieving pregnancy.

I’ve never been pregnant a day in my life and yet, I am not held captive by the pain of infertility.

I guess the point I am trying to say here is there is real freedom in surrendering your plans for God’s. Take some time to be still before Him and listen to Him. If you don’t know where to go next and you can’t see how you will ever become a mother - that’s the BEST place to be!

If you take the time to be still before the Lord and allow Him to speak to your heart, HE WILL.

Infertility (in the sense of treatments and month after month of sorrows) is not forever.

Believe God has a plan for your life. (Jeremiah 29:11)

Determine to trust Him with everything you’ve got.

Wait on Him. (Um. I know this is not what you want to hear if you are in the midst of yet another disappointment. But it is a critical piece of the puzzle.)

Stand in amazement at the Something More God does in your life.

I FIRMLY believe that if God does not allow something to happen when you think it should, it is because He has Something More in mind.

Think about my journey … 3 failed IUIs and a poor response to IVF meds with the lovely diagnosis that my ovaries are caput.

Not exactly the news I was expecting (or hoping) to hear at the age of 27.

Now, believe me, I had my time of being angry and feeling like my life’s circumstances were completely unfair. But I had to move on from that place or else infertility would have a stronghold on my life.

God did have Something More in mind … people don’t just turn in adoption paperwork and have a “wait time” of precisely negative two minutes before being matched with a baby!

So, give yourself some time to be angry, but then dwell on the fact that if your faith is in Jesus Christ, even at this very moment, He is at work carrying out His plan of Something More for your life!

A year or two or ten from now you will look back on this season of your life and stand in amazement at what the Lord has done!

- Elaine