CONFESSIONS OF A CHILDLESS MOTHER:
Learning to trust God through infertility
By Sarah Fuller
Day One. 173 pages. £8.00
ISBN: 978 1 846 254 819
This book takes you on a journey into the often-unexplored world of infertility. It explains the pain anxiety and grief of a couple that unexpectedly find themselves travelling along this lonely road. Alongside you see expressed the hope joy and triumph that comes through Jesus drawing near and making himself known.
Writing sensitivity and honestly the author, with some help from her husband, clearly relates their story. How does it feel to go month after month, year after year without ever becoming pregnant? How does it feel to be told there is no apparent reason for you not to conceive? How does it feel to face making decisions with regard to medical intervention? What happens to you as a couple when God seems not to answer your much longed for prayer? How does it feel to lose through miscarriage your much loved and wanted child? All these questions and many more are explored in this book.
Every chapter ends with some helpful questions to consider and a prayer for those hurting from the pain of infertility and also for those seeking to minister into the maze of infertility. Much comfort can be found in the hymns and scriptures personally chosen by the author at the end of the book. I would warmly encourage you to read it.
We will at some point in our lives find ourselves either walking this path, or walking closely with another who is experiencing the effects of infertility. This book will expose the real hurt, disappointment and sadness experienced through infertility, but will also show the reality of the grace, love and mercy found only in our God. Throughout the book the grace, love and mercy of our Lord shine like a golden thread, dispelling the darkness and despair.
Begin a journey into the unexplored and be prepared to meet with God.
