infertility
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For National Infertility Awareness Week. . .
It’s #NationalInfertilityAwarenessWeek and you know what? There needs to be more poems about how rich a family is with no children. More poems that end as sad as infertility feels. More poems giving beautiful wings to our altered timelines and this abrupt grief lasting years. More poems about complete healing that have nothing to do… Continue reading
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Healing’s Synonym
That in between. . .sometimes lovely, sometimes awful. But God is right with us in all of it. . .helping us, healing us, staying for dawn and night and day. His presence is everything. The greatest thing I truly learned, felt, and begun to KNOW during infertility. Continue reading
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When Seasons Are Forever
It’s a powerful gift when someone just lets your PAIN BE WHAT IT IS. Not explaining it away, or saying, “Well, God must be doing this or that, or this other thing.” My sister-in-law inspired the poem, Age, because she just sat with me in my pain, didn’t rush me out of it, called it… Continue reading
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A Take on Silver Linings
Go softly. Be gentle with yourself. Let there be more. Let it be later. This is not a Gold Rush. Continue reading
