If you feel alone in your infertility, you are in the right place. If you are exhausted, feel hope slipping away or need someone who understands what you’re going through, you’re in the right place.

“One afternoon during the most intense time of my infertility journey, I was at work when an incident triggered a moment of anxiety. Someone had made a comment to me about why I didn’t yet have children, and they kept pushing as to why and what I was going to do about it. In my frustration over the unwelcome conversation, I decided to start writing down all of my struggles with what had become a huge cross for me to bear. It was therapeutic to get it all out of my head and onto paper.

I needed a way to offer up these struggles to God and to ask for His help. I had learned some time ago that I couldn’t just white knuckle my way through this difficult journey.

I’ve always loved litanies and praying their responsive petitions between a leader and a group. But I couldn’t find any litanies that relayed how I was feeling. As I wrote the struggles I was having as prayers, asking for God’s help to overcome them, my infertility litany began to take shape. Each time an issue triggered a feeling, I incorporated it into the litany and turned that trigger into a prayer.

As our infertility story continued to unfold, I learned about others with similar struggles. This led me to include specific prayers in my litany that might speak to those having the same temptations.

During the process of writing my litany, my eyes were finally opened to the blessings God has given me and my husband through our infertility struggle, and I was moved to add prayers of thanksgiving. When I felt the litany was complete, I also added lines asking for prayers of intercession from our patron saints along with other saints associated with infertility and desperate causes.

This devotional features my entire litany and guidance for praying through a third of it in five weeks. Including reflections and prayers over each line would’ve made for one very long devotional, so I decided to break up what I wrote into thirds. Two additional volumes will follow ‘The Stormy Waves of Grief’ and each will include another five weeks’ worth of prayers and reflections. Together, the three volumes will allow you to pray through my entire litany.

I pray that as you read it, you find both the courage and the words to name out loud your own struggles with your infertility, knowing that you are not alone. There is a whole community of women who have come before you and who are there with you in the journey now. Know of my prayers for you, no matter where you find yourself in the journey. I’d love to hear from you.”