In this personal testimony, the speaker recounts a period of infertility that left them feeling left behind as friends announced pregnancies. Rather than succumbing to jealousy, they deliberately chose to pour love and intentional care into their nieces, nephews, and friends' children. This act of gratitude toward the children they could nurture healed their own heart, replacing bitterness with thankfulness. The healed heart allowed faith to grow, and the speaker explains that gratitude cultivates faith, which in turn can bring about miracles. Ultimately, they credit this shift in mindset and spiritual openness for the arrival of their own miracle babies.
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There was a season in our lives where Jess and I were believing for a miracle baby. We couldn't have children. And here was one of the more challenging aspects of this. Our friends were in a season of life where they were getting pregnant and having children. Now, it wasn't that we were jealous of what they had, that we didn't want them to have children. You see, we saw every pregnancy announcement as the tick of a hand on a clock. Every time someone announced, we're having a baby, We just were reminded of the time that was going by. And as every announcement was made, we felt like we were getting further and further behind. But here's something powerful that we did. We determined that we were going to treat our nieces and nephews with great intention and care. And we said, we have all this love that we feel like we have nowhere to put, this love that we want to give. And since we don't have children of our own for now, Or maybe always, we'll just pour that out on our nieces and nephews and even our friends' children. We said we're gonna be there for their children. Now, this did something in our hearts that healed us. And here's what's amazing. That gratitude, when we would look at our friends' kids and, and our nieces and nephews, that gratitude was healing to the heart. Please hear this. That gratitude was healing to the heart. And as our hearts were healed with that gratitude, faith could now grow. You see, in a heart that's filled with jealousy and skepticism and entitlement and bitterness, it's very hard for faith to grow. But in a heart that's grateful, faith can thrive. So gratitude cultivates faith, and faith cultivates the miraculous. And we did get our miracle babies.
