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Ten is a Beautiful Number
OK, I can’t keep quiet any longer!
I have known for a whole week! The news has leaked out here in Alaska but now we are going public. I found out two days AFTER my hubby left. It would have been nice to celebrate together. I would have known sooner but just misread the physical symptoms as pre-deployment stress. Obviously, that was not the case. I can now literally say my I have my hands full.
Baby number ten is on the way.
I am feeling pretty good so far considering how sick I usually am. I am nauseous, sleepy, having a few migraines, and I can no longer stand the taste of my regular diet coke, but thankfully that is all. Of course, that is ALWAYS open to change! I would love not to have months of the usual vomiting and dry heaving though!
We already have a boy’s name and have narrowed our girl name down to three. Due date as of now is November 23. We will be having a very thankful Thanksgiving!
Psalm 127:1a Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.
Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
Psalm 139:13-16 For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret,intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance;in your book were written, every one of them,the days that were formed for me,when as yet there was none of them.
Praise the Lord with us! And please pray for our family.
QF Carnival
When people hear about those who believe the Lord is sovereign over the womb and that it is an area in which we are not to intervene, people often think of very large families. That is not always the case. In fact, there are many who are only blessed with one child or maybe not even any children. Some of these families have followed through with adoption and yet still prayerfully leave their own fertility in the Lord’s hands without intervention.
Here are a few links that deal with this very thing.
Visit Kristin at Precious in His Site
Stop by Ann’ Re’s
Pay a visit to From Then to Today
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Quiverfull Carnival #7
Visit Cindy at Life-Learning in a Family Enviroment to read about their journey in her blog post, Letting God Decide the Size of our Family.
Visit Christine over at Live to Learn to read her story. Her family has traveled the road of sterilization and reversal. In her post, Our Vasectomy Reversal Story, she shares about the amazing way that the Lord has worked in their lives.
Lady Why over at Where the Kudzu Grows has an amazing story of going through sterilization and reversal two times. The Lord has worked in many amazing ways and she lists miracle after miracle in her story. To read visit: A Testimony of the Lord’s Patience, Grace, Miracles, and Faithfulness.
Kerri has a unique way of sharing her beliefs. Read her Arrow Story on her blog, Life with Full Hands.
Audrey, has taken the time to show the effects living this lifestlye has had upon the generations of her family. If only more would stop and consider the great impact they could have for the Lord if only they would be open to the blessings of the Lord. Read her post over on her blog, So, This is Heaven on Earth.
The last link in this carnival is for the Peterson Clan blog. The post is a short one but touches on a topic that many do not see. The fact that not all who live this lifestyle are blessed with many children and that there must be contentment and trust concerning that as well.
I hope you are blessed and encouraged by the links included in this carnival. Please take some time to browse the blogs listed, leave them a comment, and please come back here and share your favorite link, something you learned, something that encouraged you or made you think. For more blogs of quiverfull minded families go to the quiverfull page. Have a blessed day!
A Personal or Larger Calling
Dear ______,I will gladly share with you my beliefs and convictions. I am often asked these questions. To be honest, in most cases the way they are asked is often in a negative tone and I try to answer them positively. I will share with you where I am at concerning these issues and my scriptural support.I am curious if you perceive having a large family as your personal calling or a larger calling to all Christian people. Do you consider the use of birth control a sin? Would this include attempts to manipulate family size through methods such as natural family planning?My beliefs really do not focus around a number or a particular size. There are many who hold the same doctrines concerning “family planning” or lack thereof and do not have large families. I know several of these people. It is not the size or number but it is about submitting to the Sovereign Lord in this area of our lives.I will say that these are difficult questions to answer simply because many get offended when people attempt to answer these questions. I will answer by stating that I believe the Bible teaches against using birth control. Not explicitly though, in other words, there is no place that we are told out right not to do so.But I believe there is an implicit teaching (combining the whole of Scripture on the matter).Those things being:
- We are told to be fruitful and multiply. This is the first commandment ever given and it has never been rescinded but instead reiterated. Gen 1:28, Gen. 9:1, Gen. 35:11
- Children are a gift and a heritage unto the Lord. Psalm 127: 1, 3-5, Psalm 128:3
- God knows us before we are even formed. Psalm 139:16, Jeremiah 1:5, Hebrews 7:9-10
- Onan was killed for being disobedient in fathering a child and spilling his seed rather than instead passing his kinsman duties on to another. Genesis 38:8-10, Ruth 4:5-7
- God desires a godly seed and that the design for marriage is to bring forth that Godly seed. Malachi 2:15, 1 Corin. 7:2-5
- God is the one who is sovereign over the womb, He opens and closes the womb. Gen 29:31, Gen. 30:22, 1 Samuel 1:19-20
- We are to offer our bodies as a living sacrifice. Romans 12:1-2
This is a just a brief summary. It is not that we are not capable of making these decisions, it is a question of if it is indeed a decision that was meant for us to make. It is a question of do I see God’s blessing as working in spite of my actions or in response of my submission to his sovereignty.
I’m Holding A Miracle
QF Carnival #6
For this carnival I would like to highlight the story of a couple of the ladies on the blogroll. First is Suzanne from the Beauty of it All. She has shared with us in a four part posting. Take some time and visit her blog.
A Heritage From The Lord Part One
A Heritage From The Lord Part Two
A Heritage From The Lord Part Three
A Heritage From The Lord Part Four
The other post I would like to highlight today is posted by the McAfee Family. Here is one statement from their post I would like to share with you.
Being a quiverful family is a daily struggle and is not an easy path but it is a worthy conviction and I pray that God will bless us all!
Take a few minutes and pop on over to read their story, A Quiverfull Life.
Next is Mandy Mom. She is a new member to our blogroll. If you have not stopped by her site yet then you are missing out on a treat. She shares her families journey in the post I will highlight here. Mandy shares about the many justifications that they used and how God brought them to a place of realizing they were simply that, justifications. How God revealed His will to them and brought them to where they are now. Her post was a great blessing to me! Take a moment and read her post, Fill My Quiver.
I would love your input! (Just be polite *grin*)
