Posts Tagged "baby"

Dear God, Why Can’t I Have a Baby?

Posted by on Sep 12, 2011 in Blog, Comfort, Encouragement | 5 comments

Dear God, Why Can’t I Have a Baby?

  One in six couples suffer with infertility, feeling ostracized and alone. “Too make matters worse,” says Janet Thompson, “few churches offer support groups to counsel this large overlooked group.” After surgery for a ruptured ovarian cyst at age twenty-one and newly engaged, the doctor told Janet that her ovaries were cystic and looked like those of a 90-year-old woman. ...

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God Daydreams

Posted by on Apr 30, 2010 in Blog, Poetry | 4 comments

God Daydreams

Think your mind’s coursing with highways of thoughts?  Imagine God’s.  Only they’re not heavy thoughts.  He’s bursting bright with light, beautiful thoughts of YOU! The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.  Zephaniah 3:17 Ever watch a mother sing over her...

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Naked Shame Reversed

Posted by on Apr 22, 2010 in Blog, Poetry | 3 comments

Naked Shame Reversed

One day when I was a kid, I saw a mother at the mall accidentally drop her baby. Strange, how these precise moments of horror permanently press themselves in our brains. I’ve never seen anyone actually step on a baby, but I’ve seen the next closest thing: someone step on grace. Like an innocent, valuable, vulnerable baby, the gift of God’s grace was both painful and costly; but we step on...

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