I have 3 children of my own.  Someone recently told me that I have enough children.  This same person also made a comment to me that the parents I know with 5 children are stupid.  Now, I understand that these comments wouldn't have been said to me at all by this person if he/she didn't feel comfortable enough with our relationship to say something like those comments knowing that I would take it "in stride" or "with a grain of salt."  So, I'm learning not to be offended by these kinds of statements.

But not being offended does not mean I don't have a problem with them.  See, I used to believe the same sort of thing, until the heart of God's Word got into me and began a change.  I'm far, faaaaar from a completed work, that's for sure.  But the Work is begun, at least.

I remember when I was 19 and in college, not married, but pregnant.  My fiance and I considered abortion.  But we chose life instead.  We got married, and that's my hubby today.  We are very grateful that we didn't choose abortion.  Abortion is the rejection of the blessing of life that God wants to give.

And that's the cusp of it: the rejection of the blessing of life that God wants to give. 

After our first was born, we used birth control to regulate my cycles and to keep from getting pregnant for a while.  But the pills made me emotionally crazy, so we stopped using them.  Later, it was pressed upon my heart by the Holy Spirit that using birth control of any sort is a rejection of the blessing of life that God wants to give.

Do you get that?  When I was using birth control, I was choosing to reject life, to reject the blessing of life that God may have wanted to give to me.  Just like an abortion is the rejection of life, so is "family planning."

If the person mentioned at the beginning is proud of me for accepting God's blessing of life by not aborting, can't he/she also be proud of me for accepting God's blessing of life if we have another child someday?