Why Infertility Happens to Christian Women

Leah after Judah - Hope in Secondary Infertility for Christian Women

Wondering Why

No one has the answer to that question. Those who have AN answer usually have several. They find not a whole reason why it happened, but things that they gained through it which eventually, if they do not seem reason enough, at least soften the blow some.

A better question is "why not?". Why should I be immune to sorrow? Women have suffered from infertility from the beginning. Certainly our society lessens that sorrow much by not adding a stigma to those who cannot bear children. At least in most places of the world today it is not considered to be a flaw to have no children. Consider the Biblical times when a woman without children was viewed by other women as deficient and inferior. No one bothered to wonder if it was her problem or his, she got the blame. And who would have wanted to be one of the wives of Henry the VIII, to be blamed for a failure to produce that we can now clearly see came from him!

So why not me? Other women suffer infant loss, why not I? Other women miscarry, why shouldn't I? Other women hope for children and are denied, and certainly I have been abundantly blessed, why should I think that now I'd be spared?

I do think though, that God does not put such a burden on us without first weighing it in the balance. He carefully considers what we can gain, against what it will cost us, and considers the chance that He may lose us. He only allows these hardships to occur if the thing we can gain is worth both the risk, and the pain. And when we suffer, He grieves with us, and would spare us if it could be done, and we still gain the full blessing or knowledge that we need.

Knowing that, and I do KNOW that, I still have times when I plead, cry, and feel angry that such a sorrow is given me to deal with. And then I pick myself back up and go on. Because what else can you do?

"And she conceived again, and bare a son:and she said, Now I will praise the Lord: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing." Genesis 29:35

This site is titled after this verse, which speaks of Leah. This verse offers hope, because Leah did go on to bear more children.

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