She Speaks
in every issue
Photography by Red Door Portrait Photography
jeannine franco
My husband and I struggled through infertility, pregnancy and miscarriage. Through it all, God remained faithful.
He constantly refreshed my heart with Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to
prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” God gave me an answer that held fast.
The first night I laid him in a crib, Nathan proceeded to bang his head against the railings. At 14 months old, he spent
time in a Russian orphanage in a room stacked with crib upon crib of children with no home. He banged his head for
comfort, to come into contact with something. In that single moment, I saw with absolute clarity the years-long journey
that God had guided me and my husband through with an unerring sense of a bigger picture than ourselves.
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