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I Have Been Avoiding You

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 I have intentionally been procrastinated writing this post for over six weeks. Maybe if I never write it I will find I am just having a bad dream. Somehow, actually posting means admitting that I have been awake all along... I have posted on Facebook , and on Substack  (where my current content is most-regularly posted), and answered countless texts and emails. But this blog was my final holdout of denial. Mom had a tough year, breaking her kneecap in February, 2025, then facing many, many discouraging and agonizing months of infection. It took a full year and three surgeries to repair the initial knee injury and ongoing complications.  Just as Mom was starting to transition to slightly more mobility, she  had a stroke in early February of this year. While "there is no such thing as a small stroke," Mom's February event only seriously sidelined her for about a week. We were shaken, but very thankful for such a relatively "mild" stroke compared to the ones that...
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Throne

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  Read about this picture at  infertilitymom.substack.com/p/throne-before-phone-word-before-world All Scripture on this post is quoted from the  Legacy Standard Bible  (LSB). Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.  LSBible.org  and  316publishing.com I would love to meet you through social media: author  page -  facebook.com/HarvestingHope Specialty pages:      infertility / loss  - fb.com/ HannahsHopeBook      stroke  - fb.com/ StrokieGal      current book project on church deception  - fb.com /DeceptionUnmasked Substack  @InfertilityMom Instagram  @InfertilityMom YouTube  @InfertilityMom Twitter / X  @InfertilityMom Pinterest  @InfertilityMom My books: Read about my current book project...
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Perspective

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My great-grandfather hand-wrote a beautiful poem that hung over my grandmother’s sink and now hangs over mine... READ on my Substack “Be hospitable to one another without grumbling.”  - 1 Peter 4:9 All Scripture on this post is quoted from the  Legacy Standard Bible  (LSB). Scripture quotations taken from the (LSB®) Legacy Standard Bible®, Copyright © 2021 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.  LSBible.org  and  316publishing.com I would love to meet you through social media: author  page -  facebook.com/HarvestingHope Specialty pages:      infertility / loss  - fb.com/ HannahsHopeBook      stroke  - fb.com/ StrokieGal      current book project on church deception  - fb.com /DeceptionUnmasked Substack  @InfertilityMom Instagram  @InfertilityMom YouTube  @InfertilityMom Twitter / X  ...
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This time It was Mom who stoked

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Many of you know my story. When mom landed in the hospital this week, she feared, "I am going to end up like Jennifer.” Read more on my Substack .
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Nice to Meet You!

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The first 15 years of our marriage were saturated by dreams of parenthood, and endless cycles of negative pregnancy tests, miscarriages, adoption losses, and three beautiful bring-home babies...  Please read read more .
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I'm now on Substack

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 I'm getting my Substack up and running. In the new year, I hope to post some fairly regular video shorts there. Please come along for the journey!  I would love to meet you through social media: author  page -  facebook.com/HarvestingHope Specialty pages:      infertility / loss  - fb.com/ HannahsHopeBook      stroke  - fb.com/ StrokieGal      current book project on church deception  - fb.com /DeceptionUnmasked Instagram  @InfertilityMom YouTube  @InfertilityMom Twitter  @InfertilityMom Pinterest  @InfertilityMom Substack @InfertilityMom My books: Read about my current book project  about deceptions women face from within the church , at  JenniferSaake.blogspot.com/2021/04/DeceptionUnmasked.html Read more  about infertility, miscarriage, adoption loss, and my first book,  Hannah's Hope  (written pre- stroke ) ,  at  JenniferSaake.blogspot.com/2021/04/...
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5 Year Mem-aversary

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I am in awe of all that God has done in my heart over the past half decade. I could not have fathomed 5 years ago that I would still be here today. Here I raise my "Ebenezer stone" of remembrance.  This post is not a brag, it is in hopes of giving encouragement to those who are just where I was five years ago today, on day two of a journey I was doubtfully and trepidationsly dipping my toes into , asking God if any memorization could actually even be feasible for me with my brain injuries and decimated memory. To God be ALL the glory! Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and he named it Ebenezer. And he said, “Thus far Yahweh has helped us.” - 1 Samuel 7:12 This is NOT a race! As I was reminded this morning when i was lamenting over how I'm not managing to get verses to stick well this month, we all go through ups and downs in the journey, but keep at it and your overall trajectory will grow!  After watching Susan Heck's video, A Call to Script...
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