When there is no words, pray.

Today I'm praying for those effected by child loss, miscarriage, and infertility. Today is pregnancy and infant loss awareness day. It's a day that I think gets lost in the shuffle of an entire month devoted to breast cancer awareness. It's also a day that is for a topic many are uncomfortable ever talking about. Too much pain, or they don't want to isolate themselves, or they fear hurting others. No matter what, it's important for these suffering women and couples to know that they are not alone. To know that a quarter of all pregnancies are lost to miscarriage and that there are people out there who will listen and pray with you if you need to talk.

So often in this day and age we feel we need to have some wise words of wisdom to make someone stop hurting, but the sad truth is we as humans are limited and incapable of this. This is where my response is to pray. To allow myself to be open to the support God would have me be. I know I've failed supporting some of my friends who've suffered this loss, that I'm sure they feel like they need more. What I know they need is healing and prayer is how I'm best able to help. Please know that for each of you I pray God continues to heal your hearts and that someday you can feel OK again, and again love the gifts and joys that are in your life currently. Grief is never an easy thing, it takes many different forms, and we are not meant to grieve alone.

For now I want to close with some scripture that has been dear ro my heart recently.

Romans 12:5 "Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep."

Romans 5:1-5 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born, and a time to die;
a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill, and a time to heal;
a time to break down, and a time to build up;
a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek, and a time to lose;
a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
a time to tear, and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
a time to love, and a time to hate;
a time for war, and a time for peace."