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Posted on April 24, 2018April 24, 2018

10 Things You Should Know About Infertility

It's Infertility Awareness Week (April 22nd - 28th). And if you've been reading my blog, I'm sure you are aware that my husband and I are going through infertility. But I felt like this week was a good time to share a little more about what that really means. So, I chatted with a few …

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Happy Monday, y’all! ☀️⠀ ⠀ Today, I hope you are the most positive person in the room. I hope you are the person who walks into the room and changes it. I hope you are the best thing happening in the room. 🎉⠀ ⠀ I think you’re amazing. 💛
When you are persevering through infertility, Child Dedication Sunday can be hard. ⠀ ⠀ Watching all those precious babies and their rightfully proud parents presenting them to the church and dedicating them to God stirs up so many emotions while you are waiting and hoping for your turn to do the same.⠀ ⠀ Last Mother’s Day I decided that I wanted to focus on my feelings of happiness for these families and truly celebrate them. I wanted my joy for them to win. (Which was especially easy that day as my newly pregnant best friend sat beside me. 🤗)⠀ And I decided that Child Dedication Sunday was for us too. So as these beautiful children are dedicated to the Lord, I dedicate our unborn children too. I pray over them, I thank God for them, I promise to raise them to know Him, I give them back to Him. It brings me so much joy and peace. It reminds that I believe and expect great things from God.⠀ ⠀ This morning I had the honor of being unexpectedly asked as a growth group leader to come forward and lay hands on these families, to pray over them, to stand with them, to promise that I will do my part to support them as the church. I can’t even explain what an emotionally charged privilege this was for me.⠀ ⠀ Gosh, I am just so very grateful for the way God works, for my church family, and for my abundant life. ⠀ ⠀ Happy Sunday! 💚
It’s taken me time to find it, but there truly can be such tremendous joy even in the wait.⠀ ⠀ That joy comes from knowing who I am and whose I am. It’s not a fleeting feeling, it’s my firm foundation. That joy is being able to trust that my God is provider, healer, creator. And that He is oh-so-good. That joy is knowing that God cares about my infertility story because He is the one writing it. ⠀ ⠀ Meaningful things have happened (and are still happening!) in this wait. My faith has grown exponentially because of this wait. My marriage is sweeter than ever because of this wait. I have felt a strong calling on my life because of this wait. I have made incredible friendships because of this wait. I have prayed specifically over 43 mamas and their 45 babies because of this wait. I have embarked on new and exciting creative adventures because of this wait. I have learned so much and grown so much. I have found that I can be thankful for hard things. I have found that I can feel joy and sadness at the same time. And that’s okay. I have found that I want to be happy because life is happening now. I have found that I am so much more than this infertility diagnosis. I have found that - baby or not - I have a mother’s heart. I have found that I am not lacking anything. I am living a life of abundance, and maybe I wouldn’t have truly known that without this wait.⠀ ⠀ I don’t know what’s next. I don’t know how long this wait will be. I don’t know God’s plan for us. But I do know that I will worship and choose joy while we wait. 💗 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ (Always thankful for you words @morganharpernichols ☀️)
I’m CRAZY for you, Valentine. 🤪💝 • Love really is mutual weirdness. So glad he gets mine. • #OhThoseHackmans #OhThoseWeirdos #ChildishlyInLove
It’s gloomy outside, but I’ve got a smile on my face because today I did some hard things. Today, I didn’t let fear win. ☀️👊🏼
She loves him so much. 😭😍 . #CatDad #LizLemonTheCat #CantHandleTheCute

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