I’m going back in time ⏰ and giving praise to the Lord for blessing me with my 3 boys.
I had 3 miscarriages before them 1999-2001 (EH and I were just engaged at this point) I was hopeless and thought I’d never be able to have children and I have always just knew I wanted to be a mom from childhood.
My EH and I were married in 2001 and I was pregnant once again in the winter of 2002. I got on my hands and knees at that moment I found out and praised God. I asked him to please bless this pregnancy and for it to come to term. A couple months later my EH left and said he loved me but wasn’t in love with me. I was heartbroken and that’s the first time I found RMI (my marriage has been restored twice, once in 2003 and most recently in 2022) but through all the trials the Lord still blessed us with our 3 sons (19,17,& 8).
1 Peter 5:10
“And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.”
Hope thank you for sharing this praise with us I’m sure that there are many women that will read your praise and can relate to how devastating it is to lose a baby… my sister was pregnant with twin girls and lost them at 5 months.. I will never forget how devastated and heartbroken we felt losing those baby girls we were all looking forward to having twins in our family… But God is faithful! She had the cutest little boy a year later.
Blessed with 3 boys after all your pain and heartache praise God for his grace!! Having your marriage Restored twice is such a confirmation that no matter what our situations looks like or if we messed up or if we go through marriage struggles again after we have had our marriage restored that He is still the same, we can come back again and again in faith knowing He is there to help us, carry us and restore us back to Him!
It is very devastating especially when back then I was a “baby” christian and just didn’t understand what I did wrong. I seen others around me having children and I was excited for them but couldn’t comprehend why I had to go through this, why others who didn’t want children were having them etc. Never could realize back then that it could be God using it for another purpose in my life, or that He would bless me with 3 children after going through the “valley of the shadow of death”.
Children are a blessing from the Lord!!! And as hard as the situation could be, being a mom gives you hope!!
The Lord always heals and brings new beginnings!!
Thank you for sharing!
Yes, thanks to our Love for healing, hope, and new beginnings.
“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.” Isaiah 43:19
Thank you for sharing, Hope, although I cannot relate to having miscarriages, I’ve seen the heartache other women went through after losing their babies, some never healed from the heartache, and I am sure you can encourage so many other women that went through this heartache with your praises and testimonies. Just reading how He blessed you with 3 boys after the heartache is such a wonderful testimony of how He turns situations around for good. \o/\o/
When we follow Him, I try to remember he moves at the right pace and we are where we are supposed to be.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jerem 29:11
What an absolutely wonderful praise, Hope!! Like you I also lost 3, two girls and a boy but unlike you I’d been blessed with children before my loss. Hearing you have these gorgeous boys and can use your testimony to give HOPE to so many women who have lost children through miscarriages is beautiful.
One way my Husband began healing ❤️🩹 my heart was by bringing a dear mother of six to RMI and the very first Restoration Fellowship in 1992. During a private conversation, she broke down, weeping confessed, saying the truth, that the six children she had was her attempt to hide and heal but she had to confess the truth that she had an abortion. Oh the horrible incredible pain she was experiencing because it was anchored in such tremendous guilt.
Even though confessing to me is lifted so much of the weight she was carrying, it wasn’t until later on when we met up that she told me that soon after she met another mother who has formed a group. And the way that these mothers were beginning their healing, after confessing, was to give these babies a name. As sweet mother encouraged me to do the same with the babies that I had lost through miscarriage— isn’t it beautiful how God connected us through our loss and guilt played no part?
Soon after, my Husband reminded me of the baby names that were chosen and interestingly, we never used because, as my husband told me—they had been used. My daughters Celine and Chloe and son, Sterling though never held in my arms are forever in my heart—making me even more thankful 🥹 for the children who were born.
That is beautiful, I love it. 🙂 I had never thought of giving them names and I can definitely see how that can be a part of the healing.
I remember reading or listening to a story that you had miscarried one child. I didn’t know 3. Even though it was after you had other children, it is still just as devastating, Im sure. I have a coworker who’s second pregnancy ended in miscarriage and is was very devastating for her.