Nine months ago I was pregnant, and then miscarried 7 weeks later.  This weekend would have been my due date.  For anyone who has experienced the pain of a miscarriage, or the agonizing trial of trying to conceive year after year, or any kind of loss or crushing of dreams, I pray these words from God might bring you comfort as they have me. 
The first is a paraphrase of Psalm 91:14-16:

Our loving God has promised it:

“Because My child loves Me,

I will never let him go.

I shall feel the pain of his wounds

and bear his hurt

and shall transform that which is ugly

into that which enriches and blesses.

And when he cries out in agony,

I shall hear and answer him.

I will be close to him and will deliver him,

and I will grant him eternal life.”

He bears your hurt, feels your pain, and hears your cries of agony.  And when we run to His strong tower, and allow His love to be the salve to our wounds, His promises continue:

Isaiah 40:28-31

Have you not known?

Have you not heard?

The everlasting God, the Lord,

The Creator of the ends of the earth,

Neither faints nor is weary.

His understanding is unsearchable.

He gives power to the weak,

And to those who have no might He increases strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary,

And the young men shall utterly fall,

But those who wait on the Lord

Shall renew their strength;

They shall mount up with wings like eagles,

They shall run and not be weary,

They shall walk and not faint.

     Those words were written for me, and they were written for you.  And the Bible is full of them.  Every time I ponder the love and the tenderness of my God, I find myself soaring in His strength.  May you do the same.  

     Once again, “I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.”  ~Ephesians 3:17-19