Faith Carried Us

Faith Carried Us

Faith Carried Us: A Journey Through Infertility, Uncertainty and God's Perfect Timing There's something profound about waiting that strips away our illusions and reveals who we really are. It exposes our need for control, our impatience with God's timing, and our tendency to confuse our plans with His purposes. Yet waiting is also where faith is forged, where character is refined, and where some of God's most beautiful work takes place—often in ways we never expected. This is a book about waiting. Not the mundane waiting we do in grocery store lines or traffic jams, but the soul-deep waiting that comes when our deepest desires seem indefinitely delayed. It's about the kind of waiting that tests everything we believe about God's goodness, His timing, and His plans for our lives. Our story begins in an unexpected place—with the absolute certainty that we didn't want children. Dacia and I had crafted what we thought was the perfect life: freedom to travel, financial flexibility, and a marriage built around our own dreams and adventures. We were confident in our choice, dismissive of those who suggested we might change our minds, and certain that parenthood was not part of God's plan for us. But God had other ideas. What followed was a journey that would span more than a decade. It was a journey marked by closed doors and unexpected openings, by profound disappointment and inexplicable hope, by the kind of waiting that either breaks your faith or refines it into something stronger than you ever imagined possible. Along the way, we learned that waiting is not passive. It's not simply marking time until God decides to act. True waiting—the kind that honors God and transforms us—is an active choice to trust His character when His timeline doesn't match our expectations. It's choosing to believe that He is good even when life feels anything but good. It's holding onto His promises when circumstances suggest He might have forgotten about us entirely. This book chronicles our journey toward parenthood through adoption, but it's really about something much larger—learning to trust God's heart when we can't see His hand. It's about discovering that His delays are not denials, that His silence doesn't mean absence, and that His timing, although mysterious, is always perfect. Whether you're waiting for healing, for relationships, for career breakthrough, for financial provision, or for dreams that seem to be taking forever to materialize—God sees you. He knows the desires of your heart because He placed many of them there. And He is writing a story with your life that is more beautiful and purposeful than anything you could draft yourself. The art of waiting by faith is just that—an art. It requires practice, patience, and a willingness to trust Someone whose ways are higher than our ways. But it's in the waiting that we often discover who God really is, who we're becoming, and how much more beautiful His plan is than anything we could have designed ourselves. Your season of waiting may feel endless, but it's not pointless. God is at work, even now. Trust Him with the timing. Trust Him with the outcome. Trust Him with your heart. He has never failed to keep His promises, and He's not about to start with you.