Children are a blessing! Yup that is in the Bible! Doesn’t say just 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6….. just says children 🙂
God values children. God is the creator of life and He decides when a child comes into this world.
He felt we needed another one! We have number 7 to arrive on APRIL FOOLS DAY (no joke)! Brian and I started to laugh when we heard the due date! Today I am 13 weeks pregnant!
This came to us as a shock on August 20th. Seriously ….we were done in our minds. Annie Mae was our last and we have gotten rid of many baby things and lots of clothes since we weren’t planning to share with more babies! Even the crib that I had used with each of our kids is gone. So this news was a surprise to us. ALL GOD working out those details!
Honestly it took us a while to tell people because we had to breathe and take in the news ourselves for a time. I feel like with all my pregnancies I’ve been super excited to share and tell (Annie Mae might have been a bit harder, because of the very same thing I’m about to share).
And this sweet baby….. why!?! Why am I so “afraid” or not excited to tell people, after all God considers all children as a blessing! I sat and thought about that for a while one day. I think it came down to dreading the reaction we would get from family and friends! How sad is that!? With each one, as our family grew we would get more and more rude, snarky, and jokey comments.
“Don’t you know what causes that”, “Gosh, you need to get fixed”, “Have any hobbies?”, “Are you done now”?, And so on and so on….. I was thinking about how very few people would give a sincere congratulations! I find this sad. Truly sad. Every baby needs and deserves to be celebrated. God knew this little one was going to be apart of our family long before I was even created! That is just amazing to me! God had this planned. Yes, maybe this wasn’t in our plan at all, and it took us some time to come to the realization that another baby was on the way. However, God knows and He has the ultimate plan, and I take comfort in that!
There are some things that I’m genuinely nervous about. However, with each new baby I’ve learned more and more about myself and how to be the mother God wants me to be. I think my intial feelings (right or wrong) were mostly based on what others would say and how they would react about our baby news!
I want so badly for this new life to be cherished, loved and anticipated! No where in the Bible is there a negative about children. The world will say they are a burden, God doesn’t!
A big family isn’t for everyone and that is OK! However for those that have a big family….. forgo the snarky remarks when another baby is added to the family and celebrate with them the new life God created!
