For the past few years, I’d been living my life under the burden of a big lie.  The lie was this: You will never be [...]

Some days attending to my wounds feels exhausting. Good self care, physical therapy, deep breathing and anxiety relieving exercises, psychotherapy, medication and supplements, spiritual direction, [...]

"You will know them by their fruits . . . every good tree bears good fruit." Matthew 7: 16-17 I think that it is very [...]

This September, my book club is reading A Song For Nagasaki by Paul Glynn, S.M. The book is a fascinating  biography of the Japanese Catholic [...]

Yesterday, September 9, marked Springs in the Desert’s seventh year of accompanying those struggling with infertility by offering a place of respite and solidarity where [...]

The last few weeks of summer are coming to an end, and fall is just around the corner, even if the Texas heat hasn’t gotten [...]

Infertility has taught me that joy cannot be deferred until life finally looks the way I imagined. God is present in this season, and learning [...]

There was a time not too long ago when I had completely lost all sense of joy in my life. It wasn’t depression; instead, I [...]

Experiencing infertility can bring an incredible – and at times indescribable – amount of suffering and anguish. The grief and trauma of infertility and loss [...]

The thing about infertility is that it touches every aspect of your life—even in ways you’d never have expected.  I never dreamed that infertility would [...]

Editor’s Note: This is the second part in a two-part series. To read Part 1, click here. As I walked through miscarriage and infertility, I [...]

Editor's Note: This is the first part in a two-part series. To read Part 2, click here. When Suffering Becomes a Place of Meaning: How [...]