Infertility Encouragement

How long have you been waiting for a baby? What have you been doing while you wait?

Of all the negative emotions you go through with infertility (sadness, anger, bitterness, despair, frustration), the worst, for me, is the guilt. It’s a never-ending cycle; one feeling of guilt leads to another until I’m back where I started. And it leaves me thinking, in the end, that the real reason I don’t have a baby is because I don’t deserve one after all.

In the last couple of days I’ve both listened to a podcast and read a devotional that “coincidentally” happened to be on the same topic: John 21: 18-22. Somehow I’ve always seemed to gloss over this section—it’s one of the few chapters of the gospels in my Bible that has no highlighting or pencil marks on it.