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Why Us?

It would be easy to look around and wonder why we have to deal with infertility.  There are parents of children they don't want (or at least act like they don't) and teenagers getting pregnant.  We do what we are 'supposed to do' - we go to church, pray, and have even given our lives to full-time ministry.  Yet, the one thing that seems to happen repeatedly; something that is natural to all creation, doesn't happen for us.  We can cry out, 'Why us?!'  Why is this happening to us?  For a moment, we did.  Then, we flipped the script and asked, 'Why not us?'  We can use this time in our lives to learn, to help, and to grow.  We are excited that we get to deal with something this difficult because it is clearly a part of His plan for us.  I find no comfort in any other explanation for our infertility except to say that God is in control and we are not.  We rest completely in Him and trust that when all is said and done and our child is sleeping in his/her bed, we will thank God for what we have.  We will be blessed through it all and in light of this blessing, we will again ask, 'Why us?'

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