Gospel singer Victor Thompson and his wife waited five years after their marriage before welcoming a child. During that period, the couple went through several difficult moments, especially as the years passed without a pregnancy.
Thompson recalled that a bishop he deeply respected once told him something he found difficult to process.
Speaking about their struggle, he aid:
“Do you know your wife cannot get pregnant?”.
The statement was particularly painful because it came from someone whose spiritual guidance he valued. He decided not to tell his wife, knowing how deeply the words could affect her.
He kept the matter to himself as they continued hoping for a child. The first year passed without a pregnancy, then the second, third and fourth years.
By the fourth year, his wife began suggesting that they consider IVF.
According to Thompson, he had no problem with the procedure, but he kept encouraging her to be patient, believing that God would give them a child.
He recalled that whenever they were happy and enjoying themselves, his wife would bring up the idea again.
In December 2024, she raised the subject once more, and this time, he agreed that they would proceed with it after Christmas.
“So, January 2nd, we went there. They did everything, and we paid the full money. The doctor said, ‘Come back a day after your period.’ And we went back home”, he stated.
However, things took an unexpected turn when his wife’s period never came.
Instead of returning to the hospital for the next stage of the IVF process, they went back to inform the hospital that they wanted their money refunded.
Thompson explained that looking at the joy their child now brings them, he sometimes thinks about how things might have turned out if they had welcomed her earlier.
“The kind of enjoyment she experiences now, if she had come the first year, second or third year, we might have been str&ggl!ng to raise her. But God came through at the right tim”, he added.
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