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Fierce Marriage

Infertility and Childlessness (Sheridan Voysey)

Fierce Marriage

Ryan and Selena Frederick

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.84.2K 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. Thanks for listening to the Fierce Marriage Podcast! If you'd like to support this ministry, please visit Patreon.com/FierceMarriage. Our monthly patrons get plenty of perks, including free books, ebooks, silicone rings, and exclusive ministry updates. Patron levels start at just $2/month.

Transcript

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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 gosh

0:07.0

God is so good and how he brings people together from across the world to talk about hard things and to talk about it in light of the Gospel and the hope that Jesus gives

0:17.0

We got the privilege to talk with Sheridan Voisey. He is from Australia, but he lives in the UK right now

0:26.0

He's him and his wife live in Oxford and they're talking about a subject that Ryan and I are less familiar with in terms of experience

0:33.0

But it's very familiar to a lot of our listeners and that's it's infertility and childlessness

0:39.0

It's a hard topic. It is a very difficult experience. 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

0:50.0

But Sheridan has a beautiful way of talking and sharing his story, the heartache, how those around him helped him, how those around him didn't help them

1:01.0

And it's beautiful and hopeful and just shares all of the pain and trials that you they went through for 10 years

1:11.0

So you're going to, if that's something that you've struggled with whether you've gone through infertility or childlessness or you're going through it or you know someone who's going through that right now

1:21.0

This interview is for you and like Selena said Sheridan does an amazing job of articulating kind of the heartache and the hopelessness but he doesn't leave us there

1:29.0

We terminate on the hope of Jesus. We end on the hope of Jesus and understanding how great it truly is

1:36.0

We are confident that this episode is going to bless you so if you can't take notes but if not you're still going to love it

1:41.0

So we'll see you on the other side

1:43.0

Alright, fierce listeners, we have an amazing guest today. Sheridan Voisi is a new friend from across the pond. Sheridan, you're with us. How are you?

1:59.0

I am really good Ryan Selena. It's so good to be with you. Thanks for this time.

2:04.0

Yeah, man, I am thrilled. We got to talking a little bit beforehand. Listen to before you have to wonder too much. Sheridan, you are a mixture of cultures

2:14.0

So people can obviously hear your accent which as Americans were constantly from it's romanticized in our minds

2:20.0

Give us a little bit of your backstory. Where do you come from? Why are you here today? Just kind of give us lace and groundwork for us

2:28.0

I look I laugh a little bit at what you just said because I was just speaking at a church just a few weeks ago in Grand Rapids

2:36.0

And it's run by a pastor friend of mine who is from West Virginia. And he said he said when people hear your accent Sheridan they immediately add like you know 30 IQ points to

2:50.0

Yes, when people hear my accent they immediately take away 30 IQ points

2:57.0

You are fortunate. Yeah, he's the one with the PhD. I don't have the PhDs. He's the brightest one between the two.

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