When Waiting Changes the Way You Live
Infertility has a way of rearranging your life without asking permission. It disrupts timelines. It challenges expectations. It quietly rewrites the story you thought you’d be telling by now. And yet, in a way I never expected, it has also made me more present than I have ever been. There is something about longing that sharpens your awareness. When you are deeply aware of what you don’t have, you begin to hold what you do have differently. More intentionally. More gratefully. More gently. I don’t rush mornings the way I used to. I linger at dinner. I notice the way the light comes through the windows. I actually listen when someone asks, “How are you?” Because when you’re walking through infertility, you realize life isn’t just about the next milestone. It’s about being faithful in the middle. Infertility has forced me to dig into the life I’m living right now, not the one I hope is coming. And that digging? It has been holy. Waiting stretches you. It exposes what you...