8 Important Truths God Taught Me During My Infertility Journey

This week on the Depth Podcast, Karen Glasgow shares both her infertility journey and her amazing adoption story of her two sons. Walking through five years of trying to get pregnant, Karen has written these eight truths that she needed to learn during the journey to add children to her family.

If you are on this same hard road of desiring to be a mom and that dream has not happened yet, I pray these words from Karen will encourage you. If you know someone else walking this difficult path, please share these helpful words from a woman who knows firsthand just how hard it is.

Karen shares on the podcast how she felt like God had forgotten her. If you have also feel overlooked, I hope you will be encouraged by these honest reflections from a mentor mom who understands.

1) Two is a family!

My husband and I needed to learn to define family as God did! It was hard to accept at first, but this truth eventually became a great comfort. In Ecclesiastes 4:9, God tells us that two is better than one!

2) God is in control of ALL things – even conception!!

Learning to trust God and His timing versus putting all of our faith in our doctors.

3) ALL babies are a GIFT FROM GOD!

No matter the circumstances of their conception…no matter how they arrive into your heart and home!

4) New life is a miracle! Celebrate “new life” whenever God gives you the opportunity to! 

Romans 12:15 says, “Rejoice with those who rejoice.” This was really, really hard at first. I went out of selfish motivation to all of those church baby showers because I did not want to have any regrets. Not yet did I understand how God blesses those who obey Him. He had much joy waiting for me through obedience, especially when I began to host some of those baby showers for the moms in our church family!

5) God chooses who He gives the “fruit of the womb” to.

I have learned that birth of a child is one of God’s most incredible ways that He makes His presence known to us!

6) Community, especially Christian community, is so important for life’s journey.

I would NOT be here today without the community God had planned for us at Calvary Church, when we arrived in 1986. Ernie and I agree that infertility was hardest on me-part of that was not knowing how to grieve together. Sadly, we did not know how to support one another in this season.

The greatest thing Ernie did for me was encourage me to buy that Peter Rabbit baby bedding that I fell in love with.  I did not feel I had a legitimate reason to buy it, but my husband said: “Buy it!”  And eventually I did!!  This became my tangible symbol of hope…that God would make a way for us to have children!

7) Psalm 113:9 brought me hope.

I was at a ladies’ retreat when I came across this verse that I had never seen before:  “He maketh the barren woman to keep house, and to be a joyful mother of children. Praise ye the LORD.” This verse became a lifeline!

8) Letting go and letting God have His way in our life.

We came to a point where we had to decide what our heart’s desire truly was…to conceive OR to be parents!?  We knew we wanted children more than anything! We were finally ready to say: HAVE YOUR WAY GOD!! 

We can now accept that God would grow our family in a different way than we had always expected, and it would still be beautiful and bring us joy!

In looking back, I now can fully say that this was truly an incredible season in my life. My greatest heart ache ever, BUT God was so close! So tangible, showering me with His loving kindness and sooo very patient with me. I was learning to hear His voice & see His presence in my life and recognize His daily goodness!

I would NOT trade these days that brought us to our “gifts of adoption”.

He was growing our family BY LOVE vs. BLOOD as our sons are the miraculous fulfillment of our heart’s desires!! Each of their birth stories are definitely written by God – unique and incredible miracles…evidence of God’s intervention, saving our two baby boys in their mothers’ wombs and choosing Ernie & me to be Timothy and Patrick’s parents!

Not stories we could have orchestrated! Only God!

Karen shares more about her story on the Depth Podcast this week. I love when she says, “I wouldn’t trade my story.” I know you will be encouraged by Karen’s powerful story of becoming a mom in God’s perfect plan and timing. Click this direct link to check it out

Karen Glasgow is a mentor mom at a local church where she encourages young moms along their parenting journey. She knows all babies are a gift from the Lord and is thankful for God’s hand in the adoption of her two sons. She has been married to Ernie for 42 years and cannot wait to one day be a grandma.