The holidays are tough for me this year.
We’re in the middle of a waiting season. It’s been five months since our last IVF cycle, and we have three more to go. The wait feels so long.
I was pregnant briefly in March after our first IVF. Had that pregnancy stuck, I’d be delivering a holiday baby right about now. We should be buying “Baby’s First Christmas” ornaments, but I’m not even sure if I’m going to put up a tree. The loss feels heavier because it’s Christmas.
I cried at church on Sunday when a new acquaintance’s two young (adopted) children ran gleefully to him after coming out of Sunday School. I wasn’t sure if I was crying because they reminded me of what I don’t have or because it’s such an amazing adoption story (probably both). Whatever the reason, the ache is deep and seems to only get deeper as time passes.
If you’re like me and struggling this Christmas, I hope we can find comfort together in the reminder that we’re not meant to bear those burdens. That’s Christ’s job. Psalm 68:19 tells us he will bear our burdens daily. But he doesn’t just take our burdens and leave us alone. I love how some of the other translations illustrate that he also carries us and delivers us through:
Praise the Lord; praise God our savior!
For each day he carries us in his arms. (NLT)
Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up;
God is our salvation. (ESV)
What burdens are you struggling to bear? Are you able to let God carry them for you? Please share your thoughts in the comments or in the link-up below.
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