Dec. 15, 2025
Life Update
Ever walked through a season where life felt both beautifully blessed and unexpectedly hard? In today's episode, host Stephanie Muiña opens her heart to share a personal life update—a story of both gratitude and grief. Together, we’ll reflect on her honest journey through loss, how faith can anchor us in our trials, and the powerful truth that even in heartbreak, God’s presence brings comfort and hope. We’ll hear her encouragement for anyone waiting on answers, carrying disappointment, or seeking purpose in a difficult season.
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You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1421. Today's Devo is called Life Update. Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida.
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And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast.
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Good morning, everybody. Stephanie here, and I am so excited to be doing the Devos this week because I have a life update that I wanted to share with all of you.
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And again, I just. First and foremost, I want to thank all of our listeners for staying consistent during the holidays. I know that you might have a lot of things going on in your life, but to get this time in with the Lord at the beginning of the day, it is just priceless. And I'm so grateful for listeners that take the time to do this and to join us in our devotional and to just make God their number one at the beginning of the day. So that's what I will be doing this week. I'm.
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I'm diving into all of the little things that I'm going through and the big things, sharing it with you, and also sharing what the Lord is doing in my heart. So I do have a life update.
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This episode will be a little bit longer, not too long, because I just went through something and I want you all to know because I just want to share with you that life is not perfect. I have been blessed immensely the past couple years with my marriage, my kids, and my new home that I will share more about this week. God has just been blessing me and I. I feel like I don't deserve any of it. However, life is not perfect and we go through our little hiccups here and there and it would be unfair for me to share with you all the high notes and not the low notes. So if I cry a little bit, I apologize. Again, this is not to get any pity. This is not to. To get any attention because right now I don't want that. I. I'm sure if you've been through this, you would understand it. I love your encouraging texts and your messages like that. I always love. I will always appreciate that. But please know I am okay. The Lord is healing me.
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The Lord is making me stronger. My husband and I are doing awesome.
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But anyways, let me just share with you. About eight.
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It would be nine weeks ago. Oh, no. About a month ago, two months ago, I found out that I was pregnant and I was pregnant with my third. As we were moving out of my house that we sold and we moved into my parents house and probably one of the first or second nights that I moved into my parents house I found out that I was pregnant. I was five weeks and everything was great until we went to our farmhouse up in Georgia.
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And it was a Friday night and my husband was hunting and I took a nap and as I was napping I just felt some cramping and there was spotting. And I usually have never dealt with that in my last pregnancies. My last two pregnancies were really, really strong. So I was really nervous. But everyone told me it's fine, this is normal, this happens. Which it is normal. If you are pregnant right now, a lot of that is normal. So please don't let this freak you out. And. But the, the spotting and the cramping ramped up on Saturday and I started to get very nervous and we were in the middle of nowhere Georgia so there wasn't an ER to really go to. I didn't want to go to any of those ers there, but I just prayed Lord, you know, at that point it was a Lord your will be done. I trust you. Well, Sunday morning I woke up to a miscarriage and I lost the pregnancy.
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And I was so heartbroken.
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Why I was heartbroken. Well, it's a miscarriage, that's awful.
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No one should ever have to deal with that.
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I got my hopes up. I was very excited for my pregnancy. I was excited for my third and my sister in law is pregnant.
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So I was excited to do that with her. I have so many friends that are pregnant so it was excited to do that with everyone.
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Strangely enough, I didn't actually share with anybody that I was pregnant. I only shared it with, with a few people and I honestly just didn't think about it.
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But I was excited. And of course when any pregnancy ends it's heartbreaking. But I'm counting my blessings. I have two very healthy children. I'm fertile, I can get pregnant. And I'm just so grateful for that because I know that there's a lot of women out there, that it is a tough journey and I, I'm praying for you and I hear you. But I went. That set me back a little bit. It set me back and I was spoiled, to be honest with you, with my two very easy pregnancies, fast pregnancies, and this came out of nowhere. And mentally it set me back physically. We had to keep moving forward. Thank God.
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It was around the holidays, it was around Thanksgiving. So I actually spent a lot of my time with my family in the woods, just praying and being with the Lord and being in his presence and healing in that way. So that was. I'm so grateful that God that it happened at that time. But of course it left me with a lot of questions, like, why now? Why does it have to happen now?
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And more than that, it's just this overwhelming feeling of, I did not want that to happen. Like, I can't ask the. I don't really like to play the why game. Like, why did it happen to me? Why did it have to happen now? I don't really think on that. I just think on, ugh, I did not want that to happen. That sucks.
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But, you know, I rest on James 1, 2, 4, which says, Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect. And let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. So even though it hurts, even though it's so sad, even though it's disappointing, I still count it as all joy because this was the Lord's plan. Even though he never orders these things upon us. I don't think that God does that. However, he redeems all of these trials. He redeems all of the pain. He redeems all of the hard days. And he's blessed me so much, and he has answered all of my prayers that I trust him and I rest in Him. And truthfully, his presence alone is all I really want right now. It's the only thing that makes me feel better. It's been three weeks since it happened, so I'm okay. I'm doing much, much better.
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But through it all, his presence is what brought me that comfort.
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So that is my life update. I will be talking about it this week on the podcast and I will be sharing more about it. But I just want to encourage all of you today. If you are going through a terrible, dark time where you are waiting on God and He's not answering, where you got a diagnosis that no one should ever have to get, if you are suffering from fertility issues, if you're suffering from a divorce, if you're suffering from those dark life situations where very few people go through, I challenge you to believe this, to count it all joy that he will redeem. These days, he will bring you joy like you cannot even fathom. And he will use these days as trials and as setbacks to only strengthen you and to strengthen your faith and to strengthen your trust in him so that we can become steadfast Christians. Sometimes we need to go through these hard times to make us stronger.
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I know I needed it. I needed a little bit of a wake up call from the Lord to become stronger. So I'm holding on to that. I pray that this encouraged you and just pray for me and my family. Pray that God will heal us.
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Pray that I can have another baby soon. And I just know that I will be praying for all of you and this week is going to be a beautiful week of me walking this out and sharing with you all my process. So let's pray.
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God, I thank you for everything you have placed into my life today.
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You have answered so many prayers. Thank you for my friends, thank you for my family, thank you for my church, thank you for my life. And thank you, God, most of all, for you.
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You are enough. If I lose all of that tomorrow, I will still be okay because I have you, Jesus. So allow me to encourage people with my testimony. Let your Holy Spirit flow through this podcast to touch others and to give them a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel as they process out their grief, their loss, whatever it is they may be walking through. I pray that we will be united in spirit through your scripture, through your consolation, Jesus. And we thank you and we worship you. And in Jesus name we all pray. Amen.
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So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value in this devotional, share it with a friend. Leave a comment or review for us on the app you're using right now. Until tomorrow. We pray that your latte is strong, but your love for Jesus is stronger.
00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:14.080
You're listening to the My Morning Devotional podcast, episode 1421. Today's Devo is called Life Update. Hey there. We're the Alessies, a ministry family working together in our church in Miami, Florida.
00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:29.109
And if you're like us, when days get busy and to do lists get longer, it can be hard to find devotional time. That's why we've partnered with our friend Allison to produce a five minute daily dose of heaven. This is the My Morning Devotional podcast.
00:00:29.350 --> 00:00:40.549
Good morning, everybody. Stephanie here, and I am so excited to be doing the Devos this week because I have a life update that I wanted to share with all of you.
00:00:41.189 --> 00:01:10.920
And again, I just. First and foremost, I want to thank all of our listeners for staying consistent during the holidays. I know that you might have a lot of things going on in your life, but to get this time in with the Lord at the beginning of the day, it is just priceless. And I'm so grateful for listeners that take the time to do this and to join us in our devotional and to just make God their number one at the beginning of the day. So that's what I will be doing this week. I'm.
00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:22.019
I'm diving into all of the little things that I'm going through and the big things, sharing it with you, and also sharing what the Lord is doing in my heart. So I do have a life update.
00:01:22.019 --> 00:02:29.400
This episode will be a little bit longer, not too long, because I just went through something and I want you all to know because I just want to share with you that life is not perfect. I have been blessed immensely the past couple years with my marriage, my kids, and my new home that I will share more about this week. God has just been blessing me and I. I feel like I don't deserve any of it. However, life is not perfect and we go through our little hiccups here and there and it would be unfair for me to share with you all the high notes and not the low notes. So if I cry a little bit, I apologize. Again, this is not to get any pity. This is not to. To get any attention because right now I don't want that. I. I'm sure if you've been through this, you would understand it. I love your encouraging texts and your messages like that. I always love. I will always appreciate that. But please know I am okay. The Lord is healing me.
00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.960
The Lord is making me stronger. My husband and I are doing awesome.
00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:36.860
But anyways, let me just share with you. About eight.
00:02:37.259 --> 00:03:06.909
It would be nine weeks ago. Oh, no. About a month ago, two months ago, I found out that I was pregnant and I was pregnant with my third. As we were moving out of my house that we sold and we moved into my parents house and probably one of the first or second nights that I moved into my parents house I found out that I was pregnant. I was five weeks and everything was great until we went to our farmhouse up in Georgia.
00:03:07.629 --> 00:04:04.360
And it was a Friday night and my husband was hunting and I took a nap and as I was napping I just felt some cramping and there was spotting. And I usually have never dealt with that in my last pregnancies. My last two pregnancies were really, really strong. So I was really nervous. But everyone told me it's fine, this is normal, this happens. Which it is normal. If you are pregnant right now, a lot of that is normal. So please don't let this freak you out. And. But the, the spotting and the cramping ramped up on Saturday and I started to get very nervous and we were in the middle of nowhere Georgia so there wasn't an ER to really go to. I didn't want to go to any of those ers there, but I just prayed Lord, you know, at that point it was a Lord your will be done. I trust you. Well, Sunday morning I woke up to a miscarriage and I lost the pregnancy.
00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:07.080
And I was so heartbroken.
00:04:10.278 --> 00:04:14.000
Why I was heartbroken. Well, it's a miscarriage, that's awful.
00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:15.879
No one should ever have to deal with that.
00:04:18.519 --> 00:04:25.879
I got my hopes up. I was very excited for my pregnancy. I was excited for my third and my sister in law is pregnant.
00:04:25.879 --> 00:04:31.839
So I was excited to do that with her. I have so many friends that are pregnant so it was excited to do that with everyone.
00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:39.439
Strangely enough, I didn't actually share with anybody that I was pregnant. I only shared it with, with a few people and I honestly just didn't think about it.
00:04:41.120 --> 00:05:22.129
But I was excited. And of course when any pregnancy ends it's heartbreaking. But I'm counting my blessings. I have two very healthy children. I'm fertile, I can get pregnant. And I'm just so grateful for that because I know that there's a lot of women out there, that it is a tough journey and I, I'm praying for you and I hear you. But I went. That set me back a little bit. It set me back and I was spoiled, to be honest with you, with my two very easy pregnancies, fast pregnancies, and this came out of nowhere. And mentally it set me back physically. We had to keep moving forward. Thank God.
00:05:22.930 --> 00:05:48.420
It was around the holidays, it was around Thanksgiving. So I actually spent a lot of my time with my family in the woods, just praying and being with the Lord and being in his presence and healing in that way. So that was. I'm so grateful that God that it happened at that time. But of course it left me with a lot of questions, like, why now? Why does it have to happen now?
00:05:49.779 --> 00:06:09.220
And more than that, it's just this overwhelming feeling of, I did not want that to happen. Like, I can't ask the. I don't really like to play the why game. Like, why did it happen to me? Why did it have to happen now? I don't really think on that. I just think on, ugh, I did not want that to happen. That sucks.
00:06:10.420 --> 00:07:30.040
But, you know, I rest on James 1, 2, 4, which says, Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect. And let steadfastness have its full effect that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. So even though it hurts, even though it's so sad, even though it's disappointing, I still count it as all joy because this was the Lord's plan. Even though he never orders these things upon us. I don't think that God does that. However, he redeems all of these trials. He redeems all of the pain. He redeems all of the hard days. And he's blessed me so much, and he has answered all of my prayers that I trust him and I rest in Him. And truthfully, his presence alone is all I really want right now. It's the only thing that makes me feel better. It's been three weeks since it happened, so I'm okay. I'm doing much, much better.
00:07:31.600 --> 00:07:35.439
But through it all, his presence is what brought me that comfort.
00:07:36.079 --> 00:08:39.940
So that is my life update. I will be talking about it this week on the podcast and I will be sharing more about it. But I just want to encourage all of you today. If you are going through a terrible, dark time where you are waiting on God and He's not answering, where you got a diagnosis that no one should ever have to get, if you are suffering from fertility issues, if you're suffering from a divorce, if you're suffering from those dark life situations where very few people go through, I challenge you to believe this, to count it all joy that he will redeem. These days, he will bring you joy like you cannot even fathom. And he will use these days as trials and as setbacks to only strengthen you and to strengthen your faith and to strengthen your trust in him so that we can become steadfast Christians. Sometimes we need to go through these hard times to make us stronger.
00:08:40.179 --> 00:08:54.990
I know I needed it. I needed a little bit of a wake up call from the Lord to become stronger. So I'm holding on to that. I pray that this encouraged you and just pray for me and my family. Pray that God will heal us.
00:08:55.309 --> 00:09:08.590
Pray that I can have another baby soon. And I just know that I will be praying for all of you and this week is going to be a beautiful week of me walking this out and sharing with you all my process. So let's pray.
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God, I thank you for everything you have placed into my life today.
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You have answered so many prayers. Thank you for my friends, thank you for my family, thank you for my church, thank you for my life. And thank you, God, most of all, for you.
00:09:24.679 --> 00:09:57.129
You are enough. If I lose all of that tomorrow, I will still be okay because I have you, Jesus. So allow me to encourage people with my testimony. Let your Holy Spirit flow through this podcast to touch others and to give them a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel as they process out their grief, their loss, whatever it is they may be walking through. I pray that we will be united in spirit through your scripture, through your consolation, Jesus. And we thank you and we worship you. And in Jesus name we all pray. Amen.
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So there you have it. Your 5 minute daily dose of heaven. Thank you so much for tuning in today. We pray these devotionals empower you to take on your day. If you found value in this devotional, share it with a friend. Leave a comment or review for us on the app you're using right now. Until tomorrow. We pray that your latte is strong, but your love for Jesus is stronger.