To me, bravery is strongest when no one knows you’re being brave. The stories you don’t see when you pass by someone walking through it. Unseen bravery. Going to baby shower after baby shower, hoping that you aren’t asked yet again when you are having children because you don’t want to have to explain your 3 year journey of infertility, but you nonetheless attend because you want to keep living your life and remain connected to friends despite feeling alone in your journey. Unseen bravery. Finally seeing a positive pregnancy test after years of waiting. Fast forward a few weeks to a doctor’s office, being told you are no longer pregnant, and wondering how to tell family and friends. You told everyone because you have been waiting and waiting for that positive for years. Unseen bravery. Taking home a child that was not formed in your womb, and creating a new life for them. Knowing there will be a day they will ask you about it. But this child is your own, as if you had birthed them yourself. And you’re ready for anything saying yes will bring. Unseen bravery. Having a gut feeling something is wrong, days before you are expecting to meet your little one. Sitting in a cold hospital room in the middle of the night, and being told there is no heartbeat. Driving back to the hospital the next day, in labor, knowing that you will not deliver your baby alive. Unseen bravery. There are women, families, walking around with these stories, feeling unseen. All the time. You wouldn’t know their struggle just by looking at them, but their struggle is deep. I’m thankful my eyes have been opened to these unseen stories, and I’m even more thankful that my unseen story is seen. By God, and by a beautiful group of ladies who have banded together to love on each other and remind one another that we see each other. Just as God sees us. He still loves us. Circumstances will not alter our faith. If you are walking through a journey and you feel unseen, you belong here. With others who know your pain. Who understand. Who see you. Please reach out if I can help connect you.