Hey, welcome to Journeying to Family. If you are reading this, hopefully we have announced a pregnancy, or maybe we changed our minds and published this before then. Who knows! Anyway, before I tell you about the highs and lows of our journey to becoming a family and why I decided to start this blog, I’ll start with a bit about me and my husband…
My name is Charly, I am currently 28 and I live on the border of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire in sunny, sunny England. I grew up in Worcester (which is beautiful by the way!) before moving to Crewe where I went to University and met my lovely husband, Pete. We lived up there for 8-10 years before relocating to where we are now. Pete grew up round the corner from where we now live and we moved here because his dream job came up as a PE teacher at the school he went to. I am also a teacher but I teach in Primary. As both full-time teachers, we ‘get it’ when it comes to the stresses and busy-ness of our jobs. We both love our jobs and what we get to do but are all too aware of how the pressures of our jobs can have a huge impact on our well-being and mental health. After a year and almost a half of living ‘down south’, we are loving our lives down here and wonder why we didn’t do it sooner!
It is important to tell you about possibly the most important part of our lives; our faith. We are both Christians. We believe in a God who loves us and whose son, Jesus, came to Earth as a baby (yay for Christmas!), lived a perfect life, died on a cross and rose back to life 3 days later before eventually leaving the Earth to go and live in heaven with his father. We believe God sent his son because He loves us, and through Jesus we have a hope that is beyond the hope we could ever give. Through our journey of TTC (trying to conceive), it has been our faith that has brought us closer as a married couple, given us strength when the desperation was deep in a way we have never experienced and when we felt that all hope was lost. When I have been at my lowest, I have felt comfort and peace which, as great as my husband is, couldn’t have been given me from a human but only from something far greater than what we could ever be. If any of this offends you, I’m sorry. If any of this confuses you or makes you want to ask me questions about it, feel free! I would be more than happy to answer any questions about my faith :).
I’m going to finish this post now with a quote I have found really helpful in our struggles. When life gets tough, which in my life it has done a lot, it is important for the Christian in me to cling on to what I already knew before the struggle even though the circumstances around me are screaming to run away.
Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
C.S.Lewis, Mere Christianity
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