“I’m pregnant.”

Author Brieanna Lightfoot Smith never actually said those words to her husband. She just walked through the kitchen, shell-shocked, and handed him the pregnancy test. It shouldn’t have come as a surprise. They were not using birth control and many of her recent, seemingly random encounters involved children—couples with children already or couples planning to have them. Nevertheless, the possibility of a life-changing event happening versus staring at the proof that it has in fact happened evokes a different set of emotions.

In this twenty-one-day devotional, Lightfoot Smith shares her journey from fear to faith and how one unexpected pregnancy would forever empower both her and others to do bold and scary things.