Infertility Quotes Quotes

“Down in the dirt,
that’s where I’ve been,
They say good news follows bad news,
I just wonder when.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“Psalms 151 -
One Plus One Equals One

You are the bridge that gets me over the low places,
what holds me together between the gaps.
When I feel like I have lost myself,
you are the way and the map.
Not all who wander are lost,
but I feel like I am wandering in the dark.
Traveling blindly down a path that I can’t see,
you light my pathway with your spark.

I feel unstable, unknowing what’s ahead,
you lead me out of the shadow of death.
When I’m just holding on by a thread,
you are the one who gives me breath.

You are my life, you are my truth,
you are my wife, you are my root,
when times are hard, you help me through.
You’re my counterpart, we’ve been fused,
now one plus one equals one, not two.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“We have been here before,
staring at the slow slide of a stick,
waiting, waiting, waiting…

Two lines,
like the beginning and ending
of a chapter of our lives…

All the year’s fortune changes
in the end, as new life evolves.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“This season won’t last forever,
Fifty-One months in the cold,
We are who we are because, together,
We faced the dark night of the soul”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings

“Anyone who has gone through this process knows that every month is filled with anxiety, hope, tears, frustration, crushing disappointment, and hoards of negative tests. You learn not to hope and to expect a bad turn. Each month builds on every emotion. It can pry couples apart and drive people mentally into the ground. Luckily, we have used this season to lean into each other and become closer. We have been each other’s foundation to stand on and compass to follow when we didn’t know what to do. We have had to let go of the way we thought this would go and walk into unexpected paths.”
― Eric Overby, Tired Wonder: Beginnings and Endings