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Which Child Do You Not Want?
Which child do you not want? If someone lined up your children in front of you and ask the question, “Which child do you not want?” you would speechlessly marvel at the absurdity of the question. For it is impossible to answer. No matter how many children you have, when you look into the faces…
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God Provides….Again!
Last week, I took our oldest child to the School of Dentistry for an orthodonist appointment. As anyone who has put braces on a child knows, it’s not cheap. And even though we’re paying a reduced rate because it is a school, it is still quite a chunk of money. Last visit they discovered that…
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Dandelions and Mothers
As we feel the first hints of Spring, I remembered a thought I had jotted down last year, after a stroll with my daughter. May it encourage your heart! Dandelions and Mothers I watched my little 3-year old daughter giggle and blow a fluffy, white dandelion bald; the final glory of the once golden…
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Doesn’t God Give Us Wisdom? Thoughts on Children & Birth Control
“Doesn’t God give us the wisdom to decide how many children we should have? I mean, after all, we have to consider whether we can afford them, or how our emotional stress level is, etc. ” This is a common theory among Christians, and used to be my own theory regarding birth control. It is…
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A Valentine’s Tribute to my Little Ones
I love little shoesI love little dolls;I love little trucksI love little balls.All these little objectsScattered here and there,Mean that little people are running everywhere!And what could be more pleasantOr bring me more delight,Than morning baby gigglesAnd sleepy hugs at night?When I’m feeling fussy At the smudges on the pane,I place my hand against the…
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Leave the Big Stuff up to God
“I was an accident.” Have you ever heard someone say that? Oh, it just sends pains through my stomach to hear it. Of course the speaker is referring to the fact that his parents didn’t “plan” for his birth, or didn’t expect it, for whatever reason. And worse than hearing someone say it of themselves,…
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What is God’s heart concerning children?
The following are a few of the Scripture references we base our conviction about children on: “It is He who has made us, and not we ourselves.” Psalm 100:3“Children are an heritage of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is His reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are…
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Oh what I would have missed!
I’ve had more time this week to really look into the faces of my children (we’ve all been sick, so we’ve spent a lot of time sitting and looking at each other!). Every one of them is SO very different…there’s the exotic-looking one with Asian-looking eyes (even though I nor my husband are from Asian…
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Prevention: Isn’t that for things we don’t like?
Birth control is as common a term now as “housefly.” But it hasn’t always been so. Margaret Sanger had her work cut out for her when she first launched the campaign to make it a common household term. Birth control serves one purpose: to prevent children. Many will argue that birth control itself is a…
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The Irony of Deception…(they call me crazy?)
I’m never as bold in the moment as I am later, when I replay the situation. When the lady at the grocery store finds out that yes, they are “all mine”, and that I have one on the way, I’ve already handed her a paper bag, but I’m never bold enough to answer her comments.…
