In the Stillness — Kimberly Stacy
It was a beautiful fall day in October of 2022 when my husband Keith and I were married in our home church in sunny Jupiter, Florida. The following day, we boarded our flight to Las Vegas, Nevada where we would later rent a car and begin the three-hour drive to Zion National Park. We spent our days climbing mountains, riding horses, and eventually venturing out to explore the other nearby parks. We gasped at the view from the top of the Grand Canyon, and we marveled at the stunning red and orange rock formations in Bryce Canyon National Park. To this day, we view our honeymoon as the best trip of our life and made incredible memories in the mountains of the Wild West. The beginning of our happily ever after. Once returning home to Florida, it took a few months before we decided we were ready to start trying for a baby. I assumed I would get pregnant rather quickly. I didn’t have anyone in my family who struggled to conceive, and I assumed I would probably get pregnant right away. Month after month went by. I saw nothing but continued negative pregnancy tests. This season of waiting on the Lord for a child was deeply discouraging, but I renewed my mind with Psalm 84:11 “For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” After nearly a year of negative tests, I scheduled an appointment with a doctor to see if something was wrong with me. Around the same time, I began to feel nauseous. I had felt “nausea” in previous months and wasn’t pregnant, so I thought little of it. I went to my doctorsappointment and was told to try for another year, and then if I still wasn’t pregnant we could do a full work up to
