Plus or Minus: Keeping Your Life, Faith, and Love Together Through Infertility
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (927 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00LP1DD2K |
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| Number of Pages | : | 391 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Why does God allow infertility?" according to Katherine Harms. Questions like this are the meat of "Plus or Minus." Real questions. Heart-rending questions. I am profoundly grateful that I never needed this book, but couples who experience infertility will be profoundly grateful that it is available. Mat and Cheri Appling have opened up the experience of infertility with candor and grace. What’s more, their shared wisdom in relationship building makes this a book I would recommend to any couple.If you are looking for scientific details or medica. Dr. Clark Roush said A MUST read!!. I LOVED Matt Appling's previous book ("Life After Art") so much, I could hardly wait to work my way through his newest missive. This one, co-authored by his wife Cheri, arrived with great expectation. I could not have known how this book would make me think, make me cry, make me angry, challenge my filters, help me as a shepherd, and ultimately help re-focus my faith."Plus or Minus" is a compelling memoir of three couples' journey through infertility. In stunning transparency, Matt and Che. while I was still weighing the risk of having another child who might not be as perfect as Matt I am Matt's father, a man so incredibly blessed that it can't be measured except in tears and laughter.My wife and I decided to have a baby one night in 1982.Nine months and a day later, Matt was due. He was evicted three weeks later!A couple of years later, while I was still weighing the risk of having another child who might not be as perfect as Matt, my wife announced we were pregnant again. The decision had been made. And that second little boy was filled with the same joy as his big b
One minus sign after another cast them into a long season of trying, failing, waiting, and hoping—into the wilderness where faith grew tired before it got stronger. It depicts life, faith, and love amidst the ebb and flow of gain and loss. You will see what it means to live fruitfully amidst barrenness and to be thankful in every season.This book provides solace for those battling infertility and a window into their pain for those who aren’t. Poetic and raw, Plus or Minus is a portrait of faith in the trenches of infertility.. You will see marriage in sickness and in health and witness strength in weakness. As you journey with the Applings and their friends, you will learn to cope when dreams and reality collide. And in that wilderness they wrote this book. A blend of story, reflection, and lament, Plus or Minus is the chronicle of three couples warring with infertility. Infertility—a long and quiet warMatt and Cheri Appling couldn’t get pregnant. You will learn to cling to God’s real promises even as you long for gifts he may not give. Amidst empty nurseries and quiet hallways, another baby shower for someone else