Alicia

“We don't get to choose our journey. But we do get to choose how we wait. Will your wait be aimless, with you grasping for things you can't actually control? Or will you find purpose in the One who saved you and sustains your life?”
― Kelley Ramsey, Waiting In Hope: 31 Reflections for Walking with God Through Infertility

“Infertility is a ride no one wants to get on or knows how to get off. Every month you try to conceive, hope rises and crashes, plunging your heart into despair.”
― Jenn Hesse, Waiting In Hope: 31 Reflections for Walking with God Through Infertility

“Saying I was lonely or alone in my aches would be understating the gravity of what I felt. My world reminded me constantly of my lack of club membership. For many years I was inevitably hurt by and excluded from mommy gatherings, baby showers, church moms' groups and friends' playdates. If I was invited, my exclusion quickly followed in the form of disconnection. I had nothing to offer the conversations regarding mom advice, funny kid stories, or parenting hacks. The circles I should belong to, I no longer fit into. I felt the pull of our distancing life stages. No matter how hard I tried, the club was out of reach.”
― Kelley Ramsey, Waiting In Hope: 31 Reflections for Walking with God Through Infertility

“By trying not to hope, we buy into a false peace. This peace is a controlled variable in our experiment. In reality, we're still grasping to control the outcome and manage how much we'll hurt in the end. To calm the mind storm, we need to give our fears over to the One who brings true peace.”
― Kelley Ramsey, Waiting In Hope: 31 Reflections for Walking with God Through Infertility