The Fullness of Time
Welcome to Hope Mommies’ In the Word devotionals. Throughout this Advent season, we will be studying Galatians 4:4-5 together. In this series, we wil study the gospel truths found in these verses and discover how the coming of Christ speaks into our sorrow.
"But when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons."Galatians 4:4-5
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God does nothing prematurely. He does not act irrationally. At ...
Four Years Later: Joy Comes In The Morning
It can often seem as though you will always be drowning beneath the acute pain of loss. However, while our grief never truly ends, it doesn't always look and feel the same way. In this series, our writers speak from where they are now in their grief, _________ years later. Throughout this series, you will find testimonies of how grief changes us, and how God uses our heartache to shape us into a greater reflection of His image.
Four years out from losing Baby P, I can finally look back without bitterness. I have seen growth sprout from the deepest, darkest ...
Are You There God?
Okay, I have a confession: I’ve never read the classic “Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret.” I know! This is especially hard for some people to hear and comprehend when they find out that I have my degree in English and Literature. It’s the truth though; I’ve never read the book. I’ll go over there and hang my head in literary shame.
But I asked the question, “Are you there God?” a number of times during the weeks and months after my daughter, my firstborn, was born and died in the same moment. Our daughter, Charlotte Ann, was born December 30, ...
Angela’s Story
He was our little miracle. After years of trying and finally agreeing to start fertility treatments in the new year, we were beyond ecstatic to find out we got pregnant naturally in September. We were over the moon. Before we knew it, we were at every baby store in town, researching every baby product on the planet, and bought all the books we could get our hands on. I remember my husband’s face when we got our stroller; he kept pushing it around and around in our living room.
Fast forward to March 31, 2020. I woke up after a rather restless night, which wasn’t out ...
Groaning and Leaning Forward
On the day I found out that my baby, Jeremy, had died, I remember leaving the doctor’s office as the sun was setting. I was alone, and as I got in my car to drive home, I thought, “One day I’ll die and this pain will be over.” I wasn’t suicidal, but it felt hopeless that I would ever get out from under such a heavy weight of sorrow. That was my third, second-trimester loss in a row, and I knew my pregnancy road was over.
I took many steps throughout the next year to move myself toward healing from my losses. In that pursuit, I stepped ...
Ten Years Later
It can often seem as though you will always be drowning beneath the acute pain of loss. However, while our grief never truly ends, it doesn't always look and feel the same way. In this series, our writers speak from where they are now in their grief, _________ years later. Throughout this series, you will find testimonies of how grief changes us, and how God uses our heartache to shape us into a greater reflection of His image.
I’m not a fan of waiting rooms. Shocker. After all, who doesn’t love waiting around a long period of time for an appointment ...
Death Will Be No More
Welcome to Hope Mommies’ In the Word devotionals. Over the next several weeks, we will be studying Revelation 21 together, which gives us a beautiful picture of the eternity that awaits those who are in Christ . In this series, we seek to lift the grieving mother's eyes up towards heaven and the imperishable inheritance that is hers and her precious baby's in Christ.
"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed ...
He Is With You In The Fire
God’s Word is filled with rich promises for His children. How do these “precious and very great promises” inform and direct your grief? How does keeping your eyes fixed on these truths anchor your hope in the Lord? In this series, we write about how God, through the promises in His Word, comforts and strengthens us in our sorrow.
I grew up going camping, and part of the experience is building a fire. We would often huddle around the fire-pit and feed in small sticks and dried leaves hoping the flame would grow. As the flame consumed the small twigs ...
Leah’s Story
We were in shock, elated shock, to find out that I was pregnant in 2018. We had struggled to conceive both of our boys for over a year each with a miscarriage in between them. As much as our hearts wanted to keep growing our family, I just couldn’t handle the ongoing heartache of trying. So, we didn’t try, didn’t really prevent, and sort of assumed that pregnancy was off the table. Our reactions to the positive pregnancy test confirmed just how much we really did hope for another baby.
Even though I was 38, my doctors were fairly relaxed about additional testing. ...
Overcomer
Everyone will wake up to a day filled with bad news at some point in their life. A call late at night, an unwelcome diagnosis, a visit from a police officer, a letter sent out to the employees of your company. Perhaps, for you it was an early break in water, pre-term labor, a heartbeat not detected, fearful tears during a sonogram, or bleeding during early pregnancy. Should I go on? Unfortunately, we are all part of a club that is heartbreakingly large because we all have had this type of bad news one way or another.
Before this bad news hit my heart, I was a blissfu...
