Tag: Miscarriage

• More Than I Can Bear

  

  I had always wanted to be a mom. However, I didn’t know how hard, heartbreaking or rewarding the journey of becoming a mom would be. My husband, Casey, and I decided to start trying for our first child about two years into our marriage. Unfortunately, we struggled with infertility, and it took us three years…

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  October 19, 2022

  2022, October 2022, Storytellers

  Amber Ennis, Becoming a mom, Called to be parents, Calling, Casey Ennis, Cesarean Section, Church, Does God give you more than you can bear?, Emergency C-section, Fast and Pray, Fear of loss, Friends who grieve, Full term stillborn baby, God knows what it's like to lose a child, God makes good from bad, God's faithfulness, God's glory, God's goodness even during painful times, God's Love, Induction Birth, Infertility, John 3:16, Miscarriage, Missouri, NICU, Nixa, Peace in midst of pain, Pour my heart out to God, Pregnancy, Pregnancy Complications, Springfield, Umbilical Cord

• Calling, Commitment, and Cambodia

  

  LOOKING AT THE FIELDS Working alongside her father in the Kansas wheatfields was a daily chore for my wife, Carmen, during her childhood. When she was 13, riding in the family work truck and gazing at the crops, it seemed like another summer’s day as her mind shifted toward the upcoming months and the necessary…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Neighbors, September 2022

  Asia, Asian Food, Assemblies of God, At-risk Children, Attention on the next generation of missionaries, Bangkok, Becoming a missionary, Calling, Cambodia, Cambodia Bible Institute, Carmen Lovelace, College, Crops, Discouragement as a missionary, Divine Plan, Encounter, Evangel University, Faith, Geography Class, Harvest, Intercultural Studies program, Jesus, Josh Lovelace, Kansas, Leaning on the Lord through grief, Lord, Lord provides, Miscarriage, Missionaries, Next steps after graduation, Philippines, Phnom Penh, Plans, Reading about the lost, Send someone else, Serve according to the calling, Short-term trip, Siem Reap, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Stories, Students, Taking the Gospel to unreached people groups, Thailand, Unreached People Groups, What does faith in Christ look like, What to talk about on first date, Wheatfields

• Allison Adler’s Story of Grief

  

  I believe my story of grief is similar to that of many women. In the summer of 2017, I had my first miscarriage. Our oldest daughter was a year and half old, and we were so excited to give her a sibling, to watch another baby grow in my womb, and to add more life…

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  October 3, 2021

  2021, October 2021, Storytellers

  Allison Adler, Bible, Coping Strategies, God, Grief, Miscarriage, Physical Therapist

• Jennifer Harrison Searches for Answers in Grief

  

  Prayer. It seems like the catch-all sometimes, the easy response. “I’ll pray for you.” But what happens when you pray, yet don’t receive the answer you desire? In 2009, I prayed that prayer, that heart-ripping, never-ending, always-on-repeat prayer: “God, please save my baby.” Because I was bleeding when I shouldn’t have been. I was 12…

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  October 3, 2021

  2021, October 2021, Storytellers

  Bible, Dallas, Garden of Hope, Grief, Heather Fann, Irving, Jennifer Harrison, King David, M.E.N.D., Miscarriage, Missouri, Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death, Prayers, Second Baptist Church, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Texas

• Honey From A Rock

  

  It was UTTERLY RIDICULOUS and made absolutely no sense whatsoever, and yet there God was, speaking it into our hearts. “Have another baby,” He said. “Start again,” He said. “Go back to the beginning. I want this for […]

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  September 5, 2021

  2021, Faith, September 2021

  Brenda Lei Casey, Christina Ford, Holy and Anointed One, Honey Baby, Miscarriage, Pregnancy, Psalm 81, Rainbow Baby, Shane & Shane, Spain