God, Man of His word!
Hi Friends!
Hi!
My name is Kait, and I’m honored to share with you parts of our journey.
I am a passionate follower of Jesus and sharing His love with others. My wonderful husband and I have been married for almost 20 yrs, and by the grace of God, we have six amazing children. Foster care has gripped my heart for the best, and now we are walking the beautiful, but the hard path of adoption. I try to share as much as I can over on Instagram @thejourneyblog, and on my blog “The Journey”.
You will usually find me with a reheated coffee, homeschooling my kids, and baking something daily. I love reading God’s word, laughing, and organizing.
My desire is that the experiences God has led me through will bring you encouragement and hope.
Let us hold TIGHTLY without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promises. Hebrews 10:23 NLT
I am no stranger to the feeling of hopelessness. My heart is, as you read this post, that you are reassured I am relatable, and understand any hardship you may be facing.
There are struggles in life that simply take us down. They can break us, they wreck us, they crush us…. But thank God, they cannot destroy us. Believe me, I understand. The struggles I have experienced have, at times, brought me to the lowest points of my life and have left my heart shattered. Between anorexia, infertility, the loss of a baby, near-death experience, anxiety, and trauma, I know what it’s like to feel lonely and hopeless. Throughout each of these times, I did feel broken and crushed, but thankfully I was not destroyed.
With all that said though, every time I feel like I can’t move on, God has graciously met me in that place. He has picked me up, increased my faith, strengthened me, and most of all brought me hope.
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I’ll never forget how cold the room was that day I lay there on a doctors table, my belly exposed to an unfamiliar ultrasound technician. I’ll also never forget as I looked over to both my doctor and that technician as he slowly said, “I am so sorry sweetie, but there is no longer a heartbeat.”
His words came out slow and muffled as I lay staring at them, and all of a sudden my whole body felt constricted as it seemed like the walls were closing in. I don’t know how I got through the next few hours, or even how I got home. I also don’t know how I managed through the next few days as I still had a baby inside of me who was no longer alive, and ultimately I blamed myself.
Having just went through four years of infertility, I horribly thought those words from my doctor were basically saying our chance of having a baby had come and gone. And there I was, empty once again.
It wasn’t long after that, my husband and I chose to pick ourselves up, and truly put our faith into action. We thought, “We are people of HOPE, so we need to live that out!”. In deep faith, we believed in God’s promises. We called each other “Mother” and “Father” in place of our names, we read and hung up every verse on the hope we could find, we got faith-filled believers around us to pray and we chose to put our full trust in the one who makes possible the things that seem impossible. My mindset changed, and my eyes were fixed on Him.
By the end of that year, we had our first baby.
This is a very long story short, crammed into a small space. This example is also just one of many that I’ve walked through that has ultimately changed my life from the inside out. So my message is …. No matter how devastating things can get, we can ALWAYS find hope in God. And that beautiful hope leaves us with peace and joy that can’t be explained.
I pray that God, the source of hope will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13
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Hope is:
-A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.
-A feeling of trust.
Both our expectation and our deep trust in Him is where He wants us to be. He wants us to know Him as our rock, our fortress, our deliverer, our refuge, and our stronghold. Then, we will sit peacefully in that great hope He promises us.
I see you, sweet sister. I pray that you would hold onto the beautiful hope God so generously desires to give you. That you would hold it tight, and you would rest tonight with peace.
God bless you.