Plus or Minus
Keeping Your Life, Faith, and Love Together Through Infertility
- 228 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Plus or Minus
Keeping Your Life, Faith, and Love Together Through Infertility
About this book
Infertility—a long and quiet war...
Matt and Cheri Appling couldn’t get pregnant. 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. 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. It depicts life, faith, and love amidst the ebb and flow of gain and loss. Amidst empty nurseries and quiet hallways, another baby shower for someone else.
As you journey with the Applings and their friends, you will learn to cope when dreams and reality collide. You will learn to cling to God’s real promises even as you long for gifts he may not give. You will see marriage in sickness and in health and witness strength in weakness. 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Rabbit Hole: Three Couples Tumble Into the World of Infertility
- 2: Welcome to the Club: The Modern World of Infertility, Six Thousand Years in the Making
- 3: What to Expect when Everyone Else is Expecting: How Modern Parenting Culture Affects Infertile Couples
- 4: The Sanctity of Life: Rebuilding Faith in a God Who is Real (But does not Always Seem That Way)
- 5: With Friends Like These: Maintaining Relationships With Family, Friends, and the Peanut Gallery
- 6: Faith and Medicine: Searching for the Fine Line … and Then Erasing It
- 7: Babies are not Marriage Counselors: Healing Marriages Stressed out by Infertility
- 8: Plus or Minus: Does “Minus” Always Mean “Negative”?
- 9: Finale: Three Stories that do not End but Pause Momentarily
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- About the Authors