Infertility Encouragement from Sarah's LaughterSample

Cast Your Cares

I want you to do something. Find a piece of paper and a pen. Now write down all the anxieties that infertility has caused you. When you're finished, wad that list up into a ball. Now here’s your assignment for the day: take the wadded up list of all your anxieties that you hold in your hand and throw it! (Please don’t throw it at anybody—even if they’ve recently told you to “relax” or griped about how little sleep they’re getting since the baby came.) Just throw it at a blank wall, out your front door or in a trash can. Just throw it away.

When you threw the wadded up list away what happened? Were you able to hold on to it and throw it away at the same time? Of course not! When you threw the paper you had to release it, to let it go. You cannot throw that ball of paper away and hang on to it at the same time. It’s simply amazing theology!

You see, 1 Peter 5:7 instructs us to take our anxieties and throw them on Christ, much as you threw your wadded up list of all the anxieties infertility has caused you. When you threw that ball of paper away, you pulled your arm back and tossed the ball away, releasing it from your hand. Why not view your anxieties about infertility the same way? Cast them all on Jesus Christ. When you cast your cares on Him, wad them up, pull your arm back and toss them on Him, releasing them from your hand.

Release your fear of a life without children and cast that anxiety on Jesus, who cares for you. Release the worry of finances and cast it on the One who put tax money in a fish’s mouth. Release the anxiety of another diagnosis and cast it on the Great Physician. Release the fear of another miscarriage and cast it on the Giver of life. Cast all your cares and anxieties on Him, for He cares for you. Release them from your hand, and cast them into His.