It Is Well With My Soul, Even Through Miscarriage

April 2, 2022 / Betsy /

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It Is Well With My Soul, Even Through Miscarriage

, |Betsy|April 2, 2022
We had a miscarriage at the beginning of January.
It was very early, less than a week after discovering I was pregnant, but life in the womb is valuable, and this baby brought a glimmer of hope. This baby was yet another miracle. Toward the end of 2016, after years of infertility, a specialist told me that we had “less than 1% chance of conceiving on our own.” The following year, along came our little girl, a pregnancy-without-medical-intervention after 7 years of unexplained infertility. She is our bundle of joy and a true miracle – we know that she is a gift from God!
In December 2019, we had an early miscarriage. One year later, our baby boy, Noah, was stillborn at 34 weeks. And a little over a year after that, we had this miscarriage. We said goodbye to three babies during our first two years of living in Hawaii.
I am feeling weary of this journey, and regularly asking God to make things clear. I’m past 40 and our family size definitely doesn’t look like we planned. My heart aches at times feels so heavy from all of this, and on other days, yet at the same time our life is full and God’s goodness is evident.
I had ordered a bracelet that arrived just before the miscarriage happened, declaring the lyrics from an old hymn: “It is well with my soul.”
The writer of that hymn penned the lyrics as he sailed across the ocean where his daughters had drowned in a shipwreck. He had experienced a lot of other deaths and losses as well, yet still declared his trust in God. “When sorrows like sea billows roll… it is well with my soul.”
I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the “sea billows roll” this past year in Hawaii. I’ve pondered the idea that before God created the world, His Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters. His presence is right there with us, even when our sorrows are like waves.
What does the future hold? Who knows. I do know that God is always good and always trustworthy even though He’s writing our family’s story much differently than I would.
So that’s all I can say right now. “Even so, it is well with my soul.”
This is not a sponsored post, I simply wanted to share the Lisa Leonard links for the “It is well with my soul” bracelet and necklace!

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