Our Big Announcement
Here’s our big announcement post. What you won’t see is a positive pregnancy test, smocked onesie, or blue and pink balloons. No gender reveal or testimony of a tough struggle to get pregnant, followed by our answered prayer… and that’s because recently we celebrated three years of carrying a cross of infertility.
“Celebrate” may sound like a weird word… but hear me out.
While the cross of infertility seems fruitless from the outside, because quite literally the issue at hand is the lack of “external fruit” (aka children)… what is rarely talked about is the interior fruit that suffering like infertility can produce, if it is done through, with, and in Jesus Christ. We’ve learned that our suffering united to Jesus’ suffering on the cross is not wasted and not in vain. He can use it for our good and for His glory. All He needs is our permission.
Turns out that hidden behind the veil of what looked like a scary, heavy, and undesirable cross from the outside was an invitation into deeper intimacy with the Lord…. An invitation into a deeper surrender and obedience to His plan, to conforming our hearts to His desires instead of the other way around, to decreasing so He could more fully increase in us, to a greater perseverance in a life lived for the Word and not the world, and to a peace that truly surpasses all understanding.
In the midst of His own agony before His passion, Jesus prayed “yet, not as I will, but as you will.” So in our daily surrender, we look to Jesus’ example as we pray those same words “thy will be done,” with a deeper, more purified understanding… knowing there is never a cross without a resurrection.
We know in full faith and hope that He is working on something way bigger than just us and our future children. He’s working meticulously and lovingly on the details of a story that will bring the most people as possible closer to His Most Sacred Heart. No matter how, when, or if He decides to reveal that to us this side of heaven.
So here’s the big announcement…
We’re happily a family of two, living life radically for the Lord, until He wills differently. We know that the answer to our prayer is not details about when, where, how, or why… the answer is a living person, and His name is Jesus Christ. And that two ordinary people living out the extraordinary sacrament of matrimony can indeed be abundantly fruitful… even if that true, good, and beautiful fruit can't be seen with the naked eye.
And to us, that’s worth celebrating.
“Three times I appealed to the Lord about this, that it would leave me, but he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.’ So, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me. Therefore I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong.” -2 Corinthians 12:8-10
On this Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us.
