Archive for the ‘Catholic thought’ Category
Today I have the pleasure of introducing a new resource that maybe all of us at one time or another wish existed. In fact, maybe its lack started us to writing about infertility on our blogs or made us start a blog all together. An actual book about infertility for Catholics! Novel idea, eh? The [...]
Filed under: Catholic infertility support - California, Catholic thought, Fertility Treatment, Spirituality, Sub-fertility | 12 Comments
Who needs a retreat? Who wants to go to Texas? I wanted to share this opportunity with anyone who’s interested in attending a weekend day retreat for those struggling to conceive or dealing with pregnancy loss. This is seriously an answer to many prayers, so I hope someone finds this information useful or can send [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Community, Prayer, Sub-fertility | 2 Comments
Catholics on Motherhood and IVF
I had a post going about Catholic motherhood, but then I saw this opinion piece this morning about how the family who were victims of that horrible mistaken embryo transfer thinks that the Catholic Church should reverse its decision on IVF. I read that they were Catholic when I heard about the story the first [...]
Filed under: Catholic teaching, Catholic thought, Contraception, Family Friendly?, Sub-fertility | 13 Comments
Lenten Purging
The priest of our university chapel this past Sunday mentioned that Lent is like taking our car to the car wash. There’s a layer of grime and dirt covering the car (especially now, during pollen season!) and when the car emerges it is bright and shiny and you remark Wow! Is that the real color [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Prayer | 3 Comments
Empty arms and empty nets
Last spring we happened to share with the priest who witnessed our marriage that we were going through some issues trying to conceive. This was still fairly early in our “attempting” so I just happened to mention in passing if he could include our desires to grow our family in his prayers (he was actually [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Cool People, Hope, Marriage, Sub-fertility | 15 Comments
Believe it or not, one of the first things I thought of when we didn’t get pregnant right away was Oh great, now no one we know is going to believe that NFP works. And I don’t think that was a crazy thought. I’ve been in the NFP world long enough to know that when [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Children, Family Friendly?, Marriage, NFP, Sub-fertility | 22 Comments
“I think clearly God is telling you guys you’re not meant to be parents right now.” I was catching up with a friend the other day and this was what she came up with after I had filled her in with the going-ons of our life these days. All I could think of in response [...]
Filed under: Adoption, Catholic thought, Contraception, Marriage, NFP, Sub-fertility | 18 Comments
Only say the word
Yesterday marked the start of Advent, the period of preparation preceding the Christmas and the birth of Christ. We wait in preparation of what glory is to come. I’ve been waiting to wait for this. Does that make sense? It seems that waiting is my natural state these days, so it only seems natural that [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Faith, Prayer | 9 Comments
Sometimes I find that reading blogs is a bit like opening up a random book to the 9th chapter and trying to understand what the story is about. Oftentimes, if I don’t know who the writer is, what their faith formation is like, what they’re about, then their blog will have no context and I’ll [...]
Filed under: About Me, Catholic thought, Faith | 5 Comments
So I tried not to mention fertility when I wrote that last post on humility and self-confidence, but you all had to know that it was lurking back there somewhere. Its always lurking back there somewhere. I had some really good suggestions and comments from people but the one that struck me was the one [...]
Filed under: Catholic thought, Faith, Sub-fertility | 15 Comments
Welcome to my blog!
I'm a recently graduated, relocated, and married Catholic NFP teacher. I started this blog as an outlet for my non-research related thoughts as I avoided finishing my thesis. Those thoughts have now all but been consumed by our sub-fertility as we struggle understanding all the whys and hows. (Oh yeah, and I annoyingly don't use the word infertility). Now that the thesis is defended and turned in, I'll try to write about other things that interest me, but chances are it will still be related to fertility.
Adventuring in California
A Martha trying to be Mary- An IF heart among baby bumps May 21, 2012
- Faith makes things possible, not easy
- Would y'all do me a favor?! May 25, 2012
- Frustrated Musings of a seemingly calm girl
- You know you've reached a new low when... May 23, 2012
- Hebrews 11:1
- Doctor visit update May 23, 2012
- Infertile Catholic
- Letting Go April 24, 2012
- Just being
- my little adventures May 23, 2012
- Making God laugh
- The IF t-shirts are back May 13, 2012
- Patiently waiting….Kinda
- The defeat of LUFS! May 26, 2012
- Perfect power in weakness
- The Birth Story: Part 1: Preparing for Labor May 24, 2012
- Still Standing
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- This cross I embrace
- That "News" I Told You Was Coming... May 25, 2012
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