"You Carried Me" is a heartfelt accounting of one woman's journey from the discovery of her attempted abortion to ultimately meeting and uniting with her birth mother decades later. She writes openly of her struggles after making this abortion discovery when a young teenager. I cannot even being to imagine how difficult it would be to learn that your mother had tried to abort you.


I was never tempted to put the book down and stop reading it. The author has told her story well, and her love for others in similar circumstances shines throughout many of this book's pages. "You Carried Me" is powerful, moving, gripping, and enlightening!


I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher.

Feeling: I feel unloved.

Truth: "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." John 3:16

     -I am part of the world. I am loved by God.

Truth: "As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love." John 15:9

Question: "How do I abide in Christ's love?"

Truth: "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love." John 15:10

Question: "Does the Father really love me?"

Truth: "...for the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved Me, and have believed that I came forth from God." John 16:27

Feeling: I feel unwanted.

Truth: I have been "called...out of darkness into His marvelous light" 1 Peter 2:9b - The Lord wouldn't call someone that He didn't want!

Truth: He has chosen me. "You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. These things I command you, that you love one another. If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you." John 15:16-19

Feeling: I feel alone.

Truth: I am not alone. The Holy Spirit is always with me. "...if I depart, I will send [the Helper] to you...when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come." John 16:7b & John 16:13

Truth: "Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you nor forsake you.' So we may boldly say: 'The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?''" Hebrews 13:5

Truth: I was dead. "And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins," Ephesians 2:1

Truth: God brought me to life. "God, who gives life to the dead and calls those things which do not exist as though they did;" Romans 4:17  This verse stopped me in my tracks for awhile. Only the Almighty God can "call those things which do not exist as though they did" or, as another translation puts it, "calls into being that which does not exist."

Truth: I'm still dead! Christ lives in me. "I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Galatians 2:20

Truth: Everything good that I do is trash with my justification in view. "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain." Galatians 2:21  "Now to him who works, the wages are not counted as grace but as debt." Romans 4:4  "But we are all like an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags;" Isaiah 64:6a

Feelings can be extremely deceitful. If they don't line up with Scripture then reject them!