Waiting with St. Anne: trusting God’s timing in infertility
When I learned that St. Anne and her husband experienced infertility before the birth of our Blessed Mother, it made me realize that God's..
When I learned that St. Anne and her husband experienced infertility before the birth of our Blessed Mother, it made me realize that God's..
I had an almost paralyzing fear about being pregnant again. This was something I desperately wanted, yet wanted to run away from. ...
“I’m going to be honest with you because someone needs to be. At your current weight, you have no business trying to conceive”. I steady...
"I have come so they may have life and have it more abundantly" says Jesus in John 10:10. It is the desire of every human heart, to live an
I love my childless life. That’s a sentence I never thought I would say! My husband Donovan and I have been trying for a baby for almost...
I invite you to tread this path with me, and to open your heart to ALL the possibilities God has in store for you. We put God in a narrow...
It was movie night. I thought I was sitting down to watch a light-hearted horror movie (Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice). Instead, I had stumbled..
Every time we come to a new year, I wonder what it will hold. In the past few years, though, I’ve noticed that my gazes into the future...
Society wants us to believe that a marriage is only fruitful when children come from it. If that were the case, what would be the purpose...
When you're stuck in the muck of the messiness that infertility brings, it is hard to see the light. It may feel like your feet and heart...
We were in front of the cathedral. It was nearing midnight. The air was crisp, I could see my breath. I was in need of physical healing...
On July 26 the Church celebrates the feast of Sts. Anne and Joachim, parents of Our Lady, and the fourth Sunday of July is therefore known..
“He’s God of the hills and valleys.” (Tauren Wells) While listening to the Sunday readings one day (Luke 17:5-10… faith the size of a musta
The dead blooms of last year clung right beside the new buds which brimmed with possibility for the spring ahead. I did not see the roses...
A wise and holy priest once told me that we don’t get to Easter Sunday without Good Friday. Simply put, we must go through suffering to...
The side effects from medications and then feeling like an experiment at times would just become too much. I remember crying when an...
There have been so many times in the depths of my grief when I felt as if I, too, was hanging on to that single thread. After my losses...
This blog post is adapted from a talk given at a retreat evening for women experiencing infertility and loss.
“Where are you, God?” It’s a question I imagine Joseph might have prayed in the interior of His heart as He learnt the news of Mary...
“Happy is the man who does not lose faith in me” (Matthew 11:6) but it is hard not to lose faith. In the darke