telling stories through poetry & personal reflections
My garden has been through it this year, but it’s still inspired some lovely poetry.
On the blog this week & next, I’ll be sharing poems inspired by my garden. So many parallels to life. I hope these words meet you where you are and embolden you to keep planting those feet of yours.
There are definite themes of the grave in Hope Gives a Eulogy, because infertiliy is the death of many things.
And I know death is a strong term, but I stand by it.
Death of dreams.
Death of who you were & who you’d thought you’d be.
Death of of all that has never existed.
Death of years dragging by with the word no ringing in your ears.
Still God heals, breathes life into the stories we hate, and stays through every stage of us.
Here lies you beginning.
All brokenness and bloom.
No better way to say what God can do with the harshest of realities. Infertility is stark, but the light of God overpowers. So, Hope Gives a Eulogy is a record of that. . .of my infertility story and my God who lived it with me and gave me life in the loss of it.
Order your copy here to read the remaining 91 poems about the awful pain, beautiful miracles, gentle healing, and overwhelming hope + light in the harsh reality of infertility.
You are not the mirage. You are not infertility. You are not your expectations. Or your pain. Or your dreams that never came true. Or the life you never lived.
You are you.
And you are real.❤
I do know Jesus can heal us in all manner of hard + painful stories. Maybe the happy story is a lot more profound than the storybook kind.
All is not lost.
