Rediscovering Hope Through the Lens of Suffering
Guest Post by Jenna Kosters
The Lord says: “My thoughts and my ways are not like yours. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, my thoughts and my ways are higher than yours. (Isaiah 55:8-9)
A few weeks ago, I shared a major disappointment for our family. I miscarried our third child.
It was our first miscarriage and I was so confused and disappointed…
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“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.” ~Isaiah 55:8 ESV
As humans, we all go through things that we may never understand this side of heaven. Life can seem full of things that seem unfair.
Some people get diagnosed with terminal illnesses, while others lose loved ones earlier than it seems they should.
For me, one of those seemingly unfair things in life had to do with pregnancies.
If you’ve found yourself here, chances are you, or someone you know, has suffered a heartbreaking loss.
My hope is that by providing a few of my favorite quotes on miscarriage and infant loss, it will offer comfort and encouragement to those who have found themselves traveling this oft lonely road.
I remember my own miscarriage story like it was yesterday.
My sweet baby boy, born into the palm of my hands, but carried away in a small shoe box.
He was perfect in every way— only he wasn’t alive.
I never knew him. Not really. But oh the dreams I had for him. For us.
Dreams that died when he did..
In reflecting on Mother’s Day, I recall a conversation I had a few years ago with a good friend of mine.
We had just finishing up lunch, when I casually made mention that I would see her at church on Sunday, to which she quickly refuted, “Oh no you won’t! I don’t do church on Mother’s Day.”
I shot her a puzzled look. And sitting back in her seat, she proceeded to tell me that Mother’s Day, for her, was just too painful.
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