Lauren Perkins had always dreamed of becoming a mom. After spending a difficult year trying and failing to fall pregnant, the idea of fertility treatment didn’t seem so scary anymore.
She and her husband, David, decided to take a vacation to Nicaragua to consider their next step.
During the trip, Lauren talked openly about their struggles to conceive with some friends, including a priest. The priest replied calmly, “Someone up there has big plans for you.
I don’t know what, but it will be big.” At the time, it sounded strange, but Lauren would soon realize the words carried weight.
After the Nicaragua trip, Lauren returned home to Texas. She didn’t think much about what the priest had said during the vacation. On the contrary, she and David had decided on one thing:
they wanted to try out artificial insemination, the simplest method of assisted fertilization. Lauren was convinced that it wouldn’t work, that she was destined to be barren. But it did. Lauren finally fell pregnant. In the first routine check, nurses told her that……Read Full Story Here.………..
