Waiting in Joyful Hope,
It has been my honor to pray for you this month. When I got my assignment and checked out your blog, I read your story and wanted to send big hugs. It was a special honor to pray for a still-waiting blogger, remembering the great and heavy time of waiting and waiting and waiting.
As I read through your old posts, I saw you actually linked to my blog to share your NaPro story (which made me even more excited to pray for you).
I have offered Mass for you and included you in our St Andrews Christmas Novena. I will keep you close to my thoughts and in my prayers...especially as your start your foster care process soon! We received our first placement three months after we started our training...I will be especially praying for a quick referral and the child meant just for you two.
With loves of hugs and love!
e
Showing posts with label prayer partner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prayer partner. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
Saturday, April 23, 2011
I have been praying for you!
This lent I had less time to focus on the internet and more time to focus on prayer! I have had the joy of offering small sacrifices and many prayers for Percolating Petals.
PP, congratulations on your miracle baby!! Of all your intentions, I can certainly most relate to the specific intention you have asked for yourself. Overcoming infertility is the hugest blessing in the world. We recognize and treasure the gift of a child SOOOOO much. And then the reality hits. Parenthood is a blessing...and a cross. I can remember the early days. The sleepless nights. The weight of every little decision. I pray you are comforted through every difficult moment with your beautiful baby girl.
In my prayers for you, the Lord gave me an image. The image of his crown of thorns. In motherhood, we are also pierced with thorns. I hope you can spend a few minutes with the image and in prayer contemplating why the Lord gave that image to me for you. :) I pray that in the coming weeks you are able to unite yourself more closely to Christ's wounds and relish more deeply the power of his resurrection!
It has been my joy to pray for you. I also realize today that we probably spoke last year about your SHE group (while I was planning The Hope Retreat). :) Happy Easter to you and your family! (watch out for a small delivery on Wednesday).
ps - pray for us! we are on our way to the Easter vigil with our two blessings!
PP, congratulations on your miracle baby!! Of all your intentions, I can certainly most relate to the specific intention you have asked for yourself. Overcoming infertility is the hugest blessing in the world. We recognize and treasure the gift of a child SOOOOO much. And then the reality hits. Parenthood is a blessing...and a cross. I can remember the early days. The sleepless nights. The weight of every little decision. I pray you are comforted through every difficult moment with your beautiful baby girl.
It has been my joy to pray for you. I also realize today that we probably spoke last year about your SHE group (while I was planning The Hope Retreat). :) Happy Easter to you and your family! (watch out for a small delivery on Wednesday).
ps - pray for us! we are on our way to the Easter vigil with our two blessings!
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Blog Closed for Lent
As I mentioned earlier I am going Unplugged for Lent. Prayer buddy...I will be offering my off-line sacrifices for your intentions!! God bless you wonderful blogging ladies! You will all be in my prayers. I will remain hopeful for those in need of Hope!
For my prayer partner, here are our important dates on our road to adoption:
March 22nd - court permanancy hearing for Augie, we don't expect surprises
EDIT April 11th - confirmation of consent hearing, where termination of parental rights will take effect
then 30 days of prayer that this is not appealed.
By then I will be back on line. Thank you!!!
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Unplugged for Lent
Just an FYI to blog readers, I am closing shop for lent. I will be doing the same for facebook and to the best of my ability, for email.
Since we don't expect to have any news on the adoption front, I don't suppose I will have much to share. Update on that topic, April 22nd is our "new Feb 28th" - meaning TPR will not happen until then, because they signed.
I will be praying for my prayer buddy and all others I have promised to pray. I may use Sunday exception and in limited doses.
I will post again before then, but just a week until warning.
Since we don't expect to have any news on the adoption front, I don't suppose I will have much to share. Update on that topic, April 22nd is our "new Feb 28th" - meaning TPR will not happen until then, because they signed.
I will be praying for my prayer buddy and all others I have promised to pray. I may use Sunday exception and in limited doses.
I will post again before then, but just a week until warning.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Prayer Buddy Reveal
This summer I joined a blogging prayer buddy network.
I am relatively unknown in this blogging network...because I started our blog for family, not for the blogging world. However, in the last year I have started reading other blogs. There are some amazing women with some amazing reflections on infertility, adoption, faith, family, etc. I have recently added a few to my sidebar. I am inspired by their stories, their faith, their parenting reflections...the fact that infertile women can actually have big families.
I received my assignment back in the beginning of July. She is a woman whose blog I had seen once before I received this assignment. The reason I found her blog was because it was sharing such gigantic news. After reading her news - I thought I had seen enough of her blog. She had received what every infertile woman longs for. The irony that she became my prayer buddy, was actually God calling me onward. I am so grateful I was forced to revisit her blog and read more about her.
This is what I have learned: She received NaPro Care (near and dear to my heart) which led to her amazing news and she and her husband were in the adoption process with Catholic Charities before their surprise (like us). She is very creative, loves to camp (wohoo) and is a woman of faith. Her profile is a picture of meeting the Pope with her husband - in their wedding clothes on their honeymoon (so cool). Her prayer intentions had nothing to do with herself, though I am sure her own spiritual needs are great. In the course of a couple of months, she has gone through great joy, great fear, sadness and excitement. Let me explain, after a year and half of infertility, she conceived triplets. Not long after that, she lost one of the babies. Now she moves forward with a twin pregnancy, which is still completely overwhelming, I imagine. Recently she found out that she is gestating twin sons.
Brittany (Picking up Our Cross), it has been a joy to pray for you and your intentions and to get you know you a little better the past month and half. I prayed especially hard for you while I was at the Theology of the Body congress adoration chapel - surrounded by very cool priests and religious. I look forward to following your blog through the rest of your pregnancy (and beyond). Your boys will be blessed to have you as their mama!
I am relatively unknown in this blogging network...because I started our blog for family, not for the blogging world. However, in the last year I have started reading other blogs. There are some amazing women with some amazing reflections on infertility, adoption, faith, family, etc. I have recently added a few to my sidebar. I am inspired by their stories, their faith, their parenting reflections...the fact that infertile women can actually have big families.
I received my assignment back in the beginning of July. She is a woman whose blog I had seen once before I received this assignment. The reason I found her blog was because it was sharing such gigantic news. After reading her news - I thought I had seen enough of her blog. She had received what every infertile woman longs for. The irony that she became my prayer buddy, was actually God calling me onward. I am so grateful I was forced to revisit her blog and read more about her.
This is what I have learned: She received NaPro Care (near and dear to my heart) which led to her amazing news and she and her husband were in the adoption process with Catholic Charities before their surprise (like us). She is very creative, loves to camp (wohoo) and is a woman of faith. Her profile is a picture of meeting the Pope with her husband - in their wedding clothes on their honeymoon (so cool). Her prayer intentions had nothing to do with herself, though I am sure her own spiritual needs are great. In the course of a couple of months, she has gone through great joy, great fear, sadness and excitement. Let me explain, after a year and half of infertility, she conceived triplets. Not long after that, she lost one of the babies. Now she moves forward with a twin pregnancy, which is still completely overwhelming, I imagine. Recently she found out that she is gestating twin sons.
Brittany (Picking up Our Cross), it has been a joy to pray for you and your intentions and to get you know you a little better the past month and half. I prayed especially hard for you while I was at the Theology of the Body congress adoration chapel - surrounded by very cool priests and religious. I look forward to following your blog through the rest of your pregnancy (and beyond). Your boys will be blessed to have you as their mama!
Friday, July 02, 2010
80 months
So I was thinking recently...
and doing a little math. I estimate that I have spent approximately 80 months of my life trying to achieve pregnancy. If I had the fertility of a Duggar, I could probably have about 6 kids by now. Granted not all 80 months were spent "TRYING" - but there was not a month we were not open to conception.
Secondary infertility is nothing compared to the pain of primary infertility. I am eternally grateful that God has given us our beautiful daughter and now called us to be foster parents. My heart does still ache, however, to hear updates on fertile growing families and wish we had their fertility. God gave us this life, this cross. I am not crazy about it, but it is mine and I would not trade it.
From my cross comes my mission and I have been blessed to help others carry their crosses this past year. I consider running the infertility retreat a gift. I am speaking more about NaPro and lately, more doors are opening towards our mission in our diocese. I pray that my witness continues to lead others towards answers and blessings in their own lives. I was thrilled last week when I received in the mail the birth announcement for my first infertility client miracle baby.
On another note, I have been reading more infertility blogs and signed up recently to be a part of a summer secret prayer partner group. I am grateful for my assignment, my call to holiness...and someone out there...I will be praying for you!
and doing a little math. I estimate that I have spent approximately 80 months of my life trying to achieve pregnancy. If I had the fertility of a Duggar, I could probably have about 6 kids by now. Granted not all 80 months were spent "TRYING" - but there was not a month we were not open to conception.Secondary infertility is nothing compared to the pain of primary infertility. I am eternally grateful that God has given us our beautiful daughter and now called us to be foster parents. My heart does still ache, however, to hear updates on fertile growing families and wish we had their fertility. God gave us this life, this cross. I am not crazy about it, but it is mine and I would not trade it.
From my cross comes my mission and I have been blessed to help others carry their crosses this past year. I consider running the infertility retreat a gift. I am speaking more about NaPro and lately, more doors are opening towards our mission in our diocese. I pray that my witness continues to lead others towards answers and blessings in their own lives. I was thrilled last week when I received in the mail the birth announcement for my first infertility client miracle baby.
On another note, I have been reading more infertility blogs and signed up recently to be a part of a summer secret prayer partner group. I am grateful for my assignment, my call to holiness...and someone out there...I will be praying for you!
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