This article was originally published on Crosswalk and iBelieve. These are the steps God led me through to find redemption after a miscarriage, but they can be applied to any devastating loss.

I pray that these steps bring hope and life to you, too.

I had no reason to hope.

I had several very large fibroid tumors in my uterus and my hormones were all over the map. We’d just lost a precious little one before we even got a chance to spread the blessed news. And I was 44 years old. I was too old.

There was no earthly reason to hope.

But I named her Hope anyways.

I didn’t realize it, but it was the first day of Advent—the Sunday of hope. With sleep still lingering in my swollen eyes, I whispered to my husband, “I want to name her Hope.” When it finally dawned on me what day it was, my heart skipped a beat.

Surely, God prompted me to name her Hope on Hope Sunday! Surely, He had a plan in all this pain.

That day, a seed of hope was planted in my soul.

Sweet friend, if you are suffering from a loss too great for words, you can find hope, too.

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• Catherine SegarsCrosswalk.com Contributing Writer
• 2020Feb 26