The assumption is that if a woman or man cannot have children; it must not only be God’s will, but true evidence of God’s wrath in action. In For This Child We Prayed: Living with the Secret Shame of Infertility, Lena Arnold dispels this horrendous misconception through personal insight, and reflection. In her struggle to have children, she invites us to journey with her. It is a tremendous journey, which takes us through the heartache of a crying, barren womb to sitting with Hannah in the scriptures as she bargains with God for a child…to the man at the pool of Bethesda who experienced the miracle of Christ’s healing…to her own personal thoughts as she writes to her future children like Celie wrote to Nettie in Alice Walker’s book “The Color Purple.” Anyone who has a promise or a dream can benefit from For This Child We Prayed, it teaches you that faith can help you wait as you believe, no matter how long it takes.
It's about—encouraging infertile individuals and couples; reminding them that:
• God has not forgotten you!
• God has a plan for you, outside of your struggle!
• You are in your most fertile period of life, to accomplish every possible dream your heart can imagine!
• You should dream of tomorrow, but live for today!
It's all about your dreams…
So when your dreams have been broken in pieces
and your hopes appear as glass shattered;
Remember, it’s not how you started,
it’s how you finish that matters.
Though through the course of this life you may falter
and the end seems nowhere in sight
Remember, the sun always arises,
to displace the dark of the night.
Through faith there are mountains to conquer
and yes valleys yet to go through.
Yet if we but trust in the Master;
no dream is too lofty for our hearts to pursue.
Hope is contained in the spirit
that believes on broken wings it can still fly.
Towards the new life in tomorrow,
as it tosses today’s torments aside.
In this life as we strive for perfection
some dreams may become broken and shattered.
But Remember, it’s not how you started,
it’s how you finish that matters!
- Lena Arnold (The Finish)
"can't wait for my book to arrive" x
1 comment:
WOW! Thank you so much for sharing! I think I might get that book too because through this struggle although I have faith my 'understanding' of it has become shakey! I could do with some insight! Thank you so much for sharing and I'll be printing that poem off for sure!
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