October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month and I wanted to take a moment to share with you how Care Net so deeply affected my life during my own losses. If this topic is a tender spot for you, please know you were prayed for as this was developed, you are loved beyond measure, and I am so very sorry for your loss.
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.”
1 Corinthians 1:3-5 (ESV)
In December of 2021, my husband and I suffered our first miscarriage. We were devastated! We so badly wanted to expand our family, to give our daughter a sibling, and to share the love that we each had with a little one.
As I started to share our loss to friends, one of them offered to send me a devotional on miscarriage that was recommended to her… by a colleague of hers at Care Net. It was truly such a heartwarming gift and very thoughtful of her to send. I didn’t know how to navigate my grief, but I am thankful for a friend who knew where to point me.
It wasn’t until I started working for Care Net, a few months later, that I became friends with the colleague that recommended the devotional. Because of her willingness to show compassion in the midst of her own grief, to offer hope and help to someone she didn’t know, I received healing.
Compassion, hope, and help are part of our mission at Care Net. And I was never so tickled than to have been touched by this mission before even being employed here!
Now, some years later, we have welcomed our rainbow baby and have celebrated him with our friends and colleagues at Care Net. But, there also has been another loss…and another… Each time my colleagues have truly shown what it means to be the hands and feet of Jesus by lifting me up in prayer during our daily devotions, to share in the tears that stain my cheeks, and to find ways to talk about miscarriage and pregnancy loss.
The cherry on top of my time at Care Net during this season has been our Affiliate Education and Marketing Team, who have taken the time to create resources for our incredible affiliates. I would love to highlight my friend Jenna’s story to also give you a unique look into one of the ways we educate our affiliate network!
These various resources educate the staff and the moms and dads who enter their centers about critical topics like Miscarriage and Pregnancy Loss.
Compassion, hope, and help. I was met with these before anyone ever spoke the words ‘Care Net’ and I am so incredibly grateful I was! My life is forever changed because of one individual’s dedication to our mission — sharing the Gospel and providing best practices to our network of over 1,350 affiliates, so that many other mothers and fathers can receive the most thoughtful and exceptional Pro Abundant Life care.