13. Trying to Conceive: Trusting God’s Timing with Lea Peterson

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The Radiant Mission Podcast | Episode 13
Host: Rebecca Twomey@theradiantmission
Co-Host: Rachel Smith
Guest: Lea Peterson @vienna_glenn

Thank you for listening to The Radiant Mission podcast! We are on a mission to encourage and inspire you on your walk with Christ and as you journey through life. 

In Episode 13, we talk to a very special guest, Lea Peterson, about her journey with trying to conceive and what she learned along the way about marriage, health, birth, and more.

In This Episode on Trying to Conceive: Trusting God’s Timing with Lea Peterson:

• Lea’s 7–8-year journey with trying to conceive
  • We are all children of God and He made our bodies perfectly. We are fearfully and wonderfully made!
  • There are spiritual aspects to conception that are beyond the physical. The mainstream perspective surrounding infertility often promotes a victim mentality. But there are two ways to look at it: why is God doing this to me vs. everything is for me and God is doing this for me.
  • In the process of waiting to conceive learned more about home birth and free birth. Lea loves the radical responsibility surrounding free birth.
  • She is not reaching to science to “save” her and help her get pregnant. She is waiting on the Lord’s timing.
• Rachel’s secondary infertility struggles and lessons learned
  • She learned that God is good no matter what. Even if He doesn’t give us what we want, continuing to put our faith in Him.
  • At the end of the day, we were not placed here on earth to be mothers or anything else. We were placed here to be children of God.
  • There is a difference between an expectation and a hope. Learning to trust God without expectation, even if we don’t get what we hope for. But that’s what trust is, it’s faith without expectation.
  • What is the behavior of surrender? It’s a mind shift and feeling of peace.
• We all have our own unique learning moments
  • Pregnancy complications, infertility, marriage issues, birth trauma—they all provide opportunities for us to lean into the Lord for guidance. All of these issues provide us an opportunity to learn and grow.
  • We are all at the mercy of spiritual warfare, it just looks different to different people.
  • Our feelings don’t change the Word of God. YHWH is our source of joy! His promises aren’t all the same but He does promise to be our joy when we delight in Him.
  • Hormone health is so important. Our bodies know what they’re doing, it’s our minds that need to be reconnected and retrained. Most of us don’t know our bodies until it’s time to have a baby.
  • Our bodies are in a constant state of healing. We’re either feeding healing or feeding sickness and disease.

Bible Verses Mentioned:

• Daniel 3:16-18
• Psalm 113:9
• Genesis 1:27-30
• Psalm 27:14

Resources Mentioned:

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