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About The Book
Are you longing for a child? Have you begged God to give you a baby of your own? You are not alone. God is near you, and He longs to comfort you as you grieve.
When Angela Mackey lost not only two babies in early pregnancy, but also her fallopian tubes, she experienced some of the darkest days of her life. In her search for answers, God reached out to her through His Word, and she began to see her infertility struggle with a renewed mind.
In Difficult to Conceive: A Godly Perspective for the Road Ahead, Angela shares the great spiritual truths God used to heal her heart, renew her mind, and bring her rest for her soul. She also shares signposts to help you discover your way through your own journey with infertility.
More than a compelling chronicle of Angela’s struggle with infertility, Difficult to Conceive is like coming to a friend who gets your pain, grieves with you, and gently points you to the One who can heal your heart. It illuminates godly principles and is rooted in Scripture so you can discover sound tools that will help you and your spouse forge a path through infertility and into a deeper relationship with God.
Discover:
- An examination of the deeply personal issues and feelings surrounding infertility
- How God’s Word will help you see your infertility struggle with a renewed mind
- How to take your whys to God for comfort, edification, and correction
- Relevant biblical accounts that offer hope, direction, and inspiration
- Personal anecdotes of secondary infertility and the use of fertility treatments in a God-honoring way.
Vulnerable, honest, supportive, and encouraging, Difficult to Conceive meets you wherever you are in the infertility journey.
About The Author
Angela Mackey
Angela Mackey is a lover of God’s Word as such she earned a master’s in biblical and theological studies. As an author, podcaster (Life as Worship), and speaker she encourages people to rethink their thinking in light of scripture that they may live transformed. She will encourage and challenge you, as you dig into God’s Word together. Angela is also a nurse and part of the Maxwell Certified Leadership Team. She lives in the Arkansas River Valley with her husband, three kids (two were born through IVF treatments), and three dogs. A seeker of beauty in all of life, Angela appreciates sunsets, sunrises, amazing coffee, rim rocking slam dunks, amazing touchdown catches, and the perfect double play. She also loves to learn, so you will often find her in the middle of more than one or even three books at a time. Connect with Angela by signing up for her weekly newsletter on her website www.rethinkingmythinking.com.
Quotes from... Difficult to Conceive: A Godly Perspective for the Road Ahead
My mind reeled with what-ifs, and my heart broke for what would not be. My baby was gone, and the vacuum created by the loss startled me.
Let us not forget that battles like infertility will come. Battles are not only spiritual, but also physical. It is how we respond to these battles in life that determines whether we claim victory in Jesus and live it on this earth or only get to see it in the future.
For me, the biggest lie I bought when struggling to conceive was the you-are-alone lie. We must focus on the truth and not allow our deceitful hearts to control our minds. If we do not, we lose sight of our loving, faithful, and all-powerful father, God.
As amazing as it sounds, God is drawing us to Him in closer relationship through our longing for a child. His severe mercy allows us to suffer through hard things so our lives will never be the same. He does it not only to make us more like Him but He allows it so we have to come closer to Him, more intimate with Him.
If we are not opening God’s word, reading it daily, we miss out on knowing God’s story and His amazing power. If we refuse to see God’s hand in our own lives, then we have no relationship that helps us rest in Him during the dark and trying times.
The bumpy and curvy road of fertility issues often leaves us isolated, heartbroken, and desperate.
In desiring children, God has shown me often that I am focused on the physical and missing out on the spiritual. When I allow my longing and grieving for a child to overtake my faith, I begin to doubt. That is when I miss spiritual truths the Holy Spirit is teaching me. Each tubal pregnancy was an opportunity for me to allow God to teach me spiritual truths, if only I could focus on Jesus.
I am not saying put on a happy face, pretend, and hide the grief and sorrow. I am saying that in the midst of the grief and sorrow, we have access to joy. With the help of the Holy Spirit, we can foster joy by fighting against the things that can threaten our access to the joy of the Lord.
Speaking
Angela Mackey is known for her humorous and poignant anecdotes that keep her audiences laughing, crying, and examining their own lives. While sharing her struggles and failures, she offers practical ways to apply scripture to daily life. Her passion is to encourage women to renew their minds through God’s word that they may live transformed lives. Go HERE to fill out a speaking inquiry.
