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We have all heard the saying, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. This quote is often said as an encouragement to someone going through difficult times. It is certainly true about my life. I have survived so much trauma and have become stronger as a result… As a young wife in my early twenties, I… Continue reading Finding Strength in a Season of Despair (Stepmoms) – by Cherron McCutchen

As a single woman, I prayed for a man who was God-fearing, loyal, committed to his family, responsible, and would put me first in his life. If I met a man and he didn’t have these characteristics, he wasn’t for me. Archie and I attended the same church and met in 2006 during choir rehearsal… Continue reading The Sacrifice of Not Always Being Seen (Stepmoms) – By Dr. ShaEssa Wright Rice

Growing up, I wanted to be married around the age of twenty-five with kids by the age of thirty. That was the dream, right? Fall in love, get married, have babies, and live in a nice house with a white picketed fence. Well, that was not my story. I married my husband at the age… Continue reading Releasing My Dream and Plan to God (Infertility) – By Kelly Redman

With my wedding day approaching, I was nervous and excited about the journey Andre and I were starting together. We were engaged just months after we met, and our wedding was a year later. During our engagement, we were in pre-marital counseling, where we discussed our backgrounds, finances, expectations for our marriage, and how to… Continue reading He Didn’t Bring Me This Far to Leave Me (Infertility) – by Deitra Smith

Have you ever heard the sound of complete despair? It’s a DEEP, LOW, LOUD, GROWL, WAILING from the gut type-of-sound. I was a complete mess in my bedroom; sobbing and snotting, distraught and shattered, and just not able to pull myself together like I had done so many times before. “Is that sound really coming… Continue reading God Hears Even When We Don’t Think He’s Listening (Infertility) – by Jamie Swain

We’re taught at an early age to create goals for ourselves and to work towards something meaningful in life. But what happens when one of those goals takes longer to achieve than you expected? Like me, you may get thrown off track. And sometimes, it can be difficult to recover. The idea of getting married… Continue reading What a Little Bit of Faith Can Do (Infertility) – by Janelle Bowman