The Case For Siblings (When Mom Has Another Baby)
Loved this article…every word resonated. “But everyone else seems to think that a new baby is bad for the other kids. Dozens of times, I’ve had strangers peer around my enormous belly to coo at the toddler, “Aww … now you won’t get to be the baby anymore.” Thanks, lady. Thanks for informing my child […]
Children With Disabilities-Part 2: The Christian’s Response
Can we fully believe that children with special needs are used by God, perhaps in the profoundest of ways, to show us our deep needs and to present us with opportunities to serve “the least of these” and therefore Christ Himself? In a culture assuring us of our right to demand comfort and ease, we […]
More Thoughts on Special Needs Children and the God Who Creates Them
This thought-provoking comment comes from The Cottage Child, copied from the comment thread in part 1 of “Children With Disabilities.” She made two extremely valid points of which we need to be reminded. Thank you, Rachael. “Another difficulty with this line of thinking, everything riding on physical perfection, is also why it’s become so incredibly […]
Reasons I Don’t Want to Have a Million Children
Interview between Holly Elliff and Nancy Leigh Demoss Holly: “And I remember vividly the day he (husband) came out of his study and said, ‘God has just given me the neatest mental picture of someday sitting on my front porch and looking out and seeing scores of children out there. And we have every temperament […]
The Religion of Self: Choosing Childlessness
Interestingly, with this topic heavy on my mind this week, one of my readers sent me a link to a horrific site, which I won’t link to–a site that promotes a “lifestyle of childlessness”. Of course what was blaring to me as I stared at the “top 100 reasons not to have kids” was how […]