Just a Season
By Kemi Faloye
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Infertility has become increasingly difficult to discuss freely in the society, despite its prevalence. Its effects are capable of leaving anyone emotionally drained and disillusioned.
If you have ever wondered how to bear up through the huge challenges that come with infertility, Just a Season is the right book for you. It delves deeply into the emotional feelings of isolation, self pity and anger that couples typically experience during this difficult time. It also reveals practical ways to overcome these negative emotions.
Kemi lets us in on how her journey through eleven miscarriages became a walk of faith. She shares openly how the dark nights of pain and tears were gradually replaced by a fresh revelation of a God that loves his children deeply and makes all things beautiful in its time.
Just a Season is bound to soothe all couples navigating through the storm of infertility. It will also help to restore strength and renew faith in God.
Kemi Faloye
Kemi Faloye is a qualified solicitor working in corporate governance. Kemi experienced eleven miscarriages within five years of marriage. She never stopped trusting God and eventually broke through, receiving her miracle son after this protracted period where her faith in God was severely tested. She is passionate about encouraging couples who are facing challenges regarding conception and childbirth to stand firm and wait patiently for the manifestation of God’s promises. Kemi enjoys listening to music, dancing and writing poetry. She is married and is blessed with a son. She resides in Essex, United Kingdom.
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Just a Season - Kemi Faloye
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Contents
Dedication
Reviews
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Early Days
2 The Start of the Journey of Faith
3 Entering the Valley of Shocks
4 The Power of Knowledge: Knowing Your God and Knowing Your Enemy!
5 Training for the Fight
6 A Renewed Hope: Putting Up a Good Fight
7 Taking a Stand: Capturing and Defending the Battlefield of Your Mind
8 Winning the Battle
9 My Exceedingly Great Reward
Appendix
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my son,
Theodore Daniel Tomiwa Faloye,
Indeed your testimony of God’s faithfulness would
Remain an inspiration to many.
Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass,
it’s about learning to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
Reviews
I looked forward to Kemi’s book getting published with a great sense of anticipation, because I know her story.
When I met Kemi, she was a gangly single girl and I have had the pleasure of seeing her transition from the youthful optimism of a newly married young lady into a maturing mother. Most importantly, because of her journey through 11 miscarriages, I have seen her become a woman of God. In this book, she is open about the pain, isolation and suffering that is part of that journey. She discusses its impact on her relationship with God and other people in her life, and how we can interact appropriately with those who are experiencing delay in childbirth. Her story also makes clear the importance of medical intervention working hand in hand with a life of faith to achieve the impossible.
It’s been a lesson just to watch her life and see her journey through repeated loss and pain into a place of fulfilled promise and victory.
Her story is instructive because she wasn’t broken. Although sometimes out for the count, she wasn’t down for long. Her resilience and faith is laudable, and she is an inspiration to many because of it.
Far from being a book about delay in childbirth, this is a book about faith in God in impossible circumstances. In this book you will gain invaluable knowledge to secure the fulfilment of the promises of God in every area of your life.
Pastor Bimbo Fola-Alade
Family Life Pastor
Trinity Chapel, London.
The Kemi I initially met at church and Kemi the mother are definitively two different people. Such muscles! Physically they both look the same, but the latter person is a trained and qualified warrior with battle scars to show for it!
As I read the book, I kept seeing a picture in my mind, of a young frail teenager pushing against a seemingly immovable wall for so many years and then being frustrated at the lack of motion in the wall, gets a glimpse of himself in the mirror only to see a fully developed wrestler staring back at him. Kemi has grown in wisdom, definitely in stature, evidently in favour with God and through this book, favour with men.
Kemi, thank you for this book, it helps us understand our season of preparation for the good things God has in store for us.
Mr Akin Salami
CEO, OHTV
Having been personally involved from the onset of Kemi’s trial (ordeal) it gives me utmost pleasure to celebrate the fact that she has overcome it but more so as she leads others who are facing a similar predicament to their ultimate victory with her testimony as a focal point.
I have taught for years that you have to go through a mess to have a truly authentic message & each chapter in the book builds a picture of how to supernaturally overcome a situation that has continually perplexed medical science.
I wholeheartedly recommend this book to anyone who is facing a trial that has bought them to the point where human endeavour has failed them & offers no further solution as you will learn how supernatural nuggets via the word of God & the dedication of His servants can release people into fulfilled destiny through faith.
Enjoy the read!
Dr. Sola Fola-Alade
Senior Pastor, Trinity Chapel, London
Kemi Faloye’s book Just a Season
held me spellbound for the 90 straight minutes it took me to devour it from cover to cover. What an inspiring and amazing testimony of God’s faithfulness! What an awesome reassurance that in spite of all we may go through during our journey to motherhood, our Heavenly Father is right there by our side, holding our hand, encouraging us to have faith, confess the word, believe and then leave the rest to Him.
11 miscarriages in almost 6 years! Yet Kemi has portrayed this her courageous journey with an