Our Story

In the spring of 2011, Mark tricked Megan into giving him her phone number. The rest is history from there as most would say. 

Fast forward to January of 2019, we were experiencing the happiest time of our life. We were expecting our first child! This is how we pictured our life when we first started dating: date, graduate college, marriage, buy a house and then have kids. We were ready to set the world on fire and show our children the world. We were sketching out what a nursery would look like and what we would name our child if it was a boy or girl. Life could not have been any better.

A few days after Mark arrived back from a missions trip to India at the end of February, Megan began to feel ill and things began to take a turn for the worst. This was the beginning of our first miscarriage. The pain, suffering, loneliness, questions, raw emotions that can’t be explained were felt. We had created something so precious that now had been taken away from us so soon. 

This caused great pain for us and we truly felt lost in a world that we were only a few months ago thinking we were going to set on fire and show our children. There was a perception that we should be able to quickly and easily move on. Instead depression, anxiety and brokenness came into our lives.

It was only in this dark time that we grew so strong and steadfast in our love for one another and our faith. We knew that God would not give us something that we could not handle. We may have scars now, but so does Jesus. Incomprehensible, we would have three more miscarriages in the coming two years. Each would take their own path with brokenness, pain and questions.   

During each of these loses, certain things always held true. Our love for one another and God grew stronger. We had faith that we would get through this together. There was always hope for tomorrow no matter how bad things got.  We would show perseverance that only God could allow us to have during these times. We did not know what the future truly held but the pillars of what is Puzzled today always showed up to us in different ways.

It was also in these dark times that we would just want to be together and work on a puzzle. This is something that we love to do from time to time as an escape from the business of the world. After much prayer and consideration, we knew we wanted to share our story to help others, but did not know what it would look like. We each on different occasions had a dream about the name Puzzled and what it would look like.