Infertility and Childlessness (Sheridan Voysey)

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Sheridan Voysey and his wife, Merryn were devastated when they realized their dream of having children would never become a reality. After infertility, an international move, and a professional change shook the Voysey's world, Sheridan realised that he couldn’t reconcile his expectations with the life he was living. In today's episode, Sheridan shares their story of heartbreak, despair, healing, purpose, and finally, joy. It was an immensely helpful episode for us, and we hope you can say the same.

Sheridan is the author of seven books, the latest being The Making: Who We Can Become When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned, which been featured in publications like The Times, Sunday Telegraph and Christianity Today. You can find all of his resources at SheridanVoysey.com or anywhere books are sold.

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0:00.0	I know we always say we're excited about these interviews, but truly, I am so like, let's just,
0:06.7	gosh, God is so good in how he brings people together from across the world to talk about
0:12.6	hard things and to talk about it in light of the gospel and the hope that Jesus gives.
0:17.7	We got the privilege to talk with Sheridan Voise. He is from Australia, but he lives in
0:25.1	the UK right now. He's, him and his wife live in Oxford. And they're talking about a subject
0:30.0	that Ryan and I are less familiar with in terms of experience. But it's very familiar to a lot of
0:35.9	our listeners. Yes. Yes. It's, uh, infertility and childlessness.
0:39.9	It's a hard topic. It is a very difficult. It's very easy to hurt feelings. It's very easy to gloss over. It's easy to just kind of try to walk through and get it and talk about whatever, you know, the story. but, uh, Sheridan has a beautiful way of talking and sharing his story, the heartache,
0:58.1	how those around him helped him, how those around him didn't help them. And it's beautiful and
1:04.3	hopeful and just shares all of the pain and trials that they went through for 10 years.
1:11.6	So you're going to, if that's something that you've struggled with, whether you've gone through
1:15.4	infertility or childlessness or you're going through it or you know someone who's going through
1:20.4	that right now, this interview is for you.
1:22.7	And like Selena said, Sheridan does an amazing job of articulating kind of the heartache and
1:27.0	the hopelessness,
1:27.7	but he doesn't leave us there. We terminate on the hope of Jesus. We end on the hope of Jesus
1:33.3	and understanding how great it truly is. We are confident that this episode is going to bless you.
1:38.8	So if you can, take notes, but if not, you're still going to love it. So we'll see you on the other side.
1:53.7	All right, Fierce listeners, we have an amazing guest today.
1:57.9	Sheridan Voizzi is a friend, a new friend from across the pond.
1:58.9	Sheridan, you're with us.
1:59.3	How are you?
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