Over the past 3 years I have been going through a time of heartbreak dealing with infertility. As I realized something that I thought would just “happen” was not happening I didn’t know what to do. I was faced with the jolting, yet obvious, fact that life is out of my control.

What do I do now?

I am tired of the fake social media presentation of pretending we have it all together, that everything is great. But I am also tired of the pop culture response to a victim mentality – wallowing in our sadness as our new complete identity. There has got to be a better way. How do you go through sad things in life in a way that you grow from it?

That is what this blog will attempt to discuss. I want to be a voice encouraging you when life doesn’t happen the way you expected or planned. That it is ok to mourn the sad things in life. That it is beautiful to be real and honest with where you are at. But, I also want to remember that there is HOPE!

To be candid: everything I write here will be influenced by my faith in Jesus as Lord and Savior. Anything remotely wise will be things I have learned from either the Bible or wise men and women of faith who learned things from the Bible. You will find nothing ground breaking, nothing new here. Just the same fight for hope in a broken world that has been waged for thousands of years.

You do not have to have life all figured out and together for it to be wonderful. I don’t want to only thrive once I reach a certain finish line. I want to thrive in the good and the bad. I want to flourish along the journey of life.