On Mother’s Day in 1998, I had recently lost a baby to an ectopic pregnancy & I sobbed convinced I would never have children because God knew I was damaged & would likely make a horrible mother. God eventually gave me two beautiful children but that’s not really the story.

The story is that in that moment, in my grief, in my fear Christ gave me himself. He sent a godly older woman into my life to say “God doesn’t work that way” & set me on a life-long journey of learning just how good & faithful God is even when this life is so very painful.

You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God. You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her.

Is 62:3-4