After losing Paris, I spent the next 5 years trying to conceive a child. It was a difficult and at times intensely painful journey. I remember a time when I came to the absolute end of myself, and I heard God say, “Trust me.” In my limited understanding I thought that meant, “trust me, and you will fall pregnant.” Month after month of ‘trusting’ Him, went by but I w....
It was June 2002 and I was six months pregnant with our first child. The Monday morning of the Queen’s birthday long weekend I woke up, wondering if what I was experiencing were ‘Braxton Hicks.’ My husband Mark suggested we go for a walk to see if the pain would subside. As we walked the pain only intensified, I tried my hardest to will it away but the pain remained. Incr....
Photo: @zamire_raine I was born in Fiji and was adopted by an Australian family when I was 10. I was excited about the life I was going to have in Australia. When you’re a little Fijian girl, Australia seems like this amazing place, a land of opportunity. We all looked up to white people. I didn’t really understand what being adopted meant. I thought I was going for....
I am done with ‘waiting’. If you have been in the Christian circles long enough, grown up in church or been to youth groups, no doubt you have heard that ‘true love waits’. At some point I started asking myself the question ‘what is true love actually waiting for?’ The question stumped me. Why am I waiting around, like I have been told to do so many times? Wait for ....
When I was 12 years old, I was diagnosed with Mosaic Turner’s Syndrome. One of the features of this condition is the absence of ovaries resulting in infertility. Being only 12 years of age I was not really thinking about the longer-term impact of this but when I turned 18 the reality of being unable to have children hit me. I was gutted. This was when my faith journey rea....
