Courageously Expecting
30 Days of Encouragement for Pregnancy After Loss
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- USD 7.99
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- USD 7.99
Descripción editorial
Using Scripture and personal narrative, Courageously Expecting empathizes with and empowers women to face a pregnancy after loss with faith and courage, despite inevitable feelings of grief and fear that accompany life after losing a baby.
Pregnancy is widely regarded as the most joyful time in a woman's life, but for the mother who has experienced pregnancy loss, a subsequent pregnancy can feel like she's holding her breath and hoping for what she can't control. In Courageously Expecting, Jenny Albers meets women in this difficult season as someone who has also experienced the worst and cautiously hoped for the best. Through the telling of her own story, Scripture, and heartfelt prayer, she encourages readers to cling to faith in the face of fear and guides them to
cultivate hope when doubt weighs heavy;realize that the past does not dictate the present or the future and that God creates a way in the wilderness of grief and loss;flip the script on the what-if, worst-case-scenario narrative in their minds and learn to take their thoughts captive; andfind the courage to humble themselves and ask for and accept help from others.
Regardless of where readers are on their pregnancy after loss journey, Courageously Expecting is a companion to help them through the days when fear overshadows hope.
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Albers, a contributor at the Pregnancy After Loss Support website, debuts with a heartfelt collection of a month's worth of daily reflections, offering hope and encouragement for those trying to conceive or carry a birth to term following pregnancy loss. Albers thought she and her husband had their family neatly planned out, envisioning three years between each birth of a crew of kids. But just as her first child, a daughter, approached her third birthday, Albers had two losses in a row: first an ectopic pregnancy, then a stillbirth. Drawing on ample scriptural sources, she helps readers find the courage to pursue and embrace pregnancy after loss, even if they cannot be sure they will carry to term, since "God promises to restore every broken thing, including your motherhood." Albers shares prayers that soothed her as she overcame her own doubt, envy, grief, guilt, and feelings of being misunderstood. She encourages the treasuring of memories, such as a positive pregnancy test or the first heartbeat recorded, while anticipating a heavenly reunion. Moving forward, she emphasizes how something as simple as purchasing nursery decor can help restore hope. "Loss doesn't discriminate," she writes, while Psalm 126:5 promises "those who sow with tears will reap with songs of joy." These pages will offer much balm to uncertain expecting mothers.
