MamaArcher's Blog » reversal http://mamaarcher.com a reformed mama raising many arrows Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:17:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Quiverfull Carnival #7 http://mamaarcher.com/2009/02/16/quiverfull-carnival-7/ http://mamaarcher.com/2009/02/16/quiverfull-carnival-7/#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:21:02 +0000 MamaArcher http://mamaarcher.com/?p=1028

352676new-mother-posters-761634Visit 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!

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About a year ago I had a real life friend email me with some questions concerning some of the convictions lived out within our family.  Since they are questions that are often posed to my husband and me, I thought I would share my response to her with you today.
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:  

  1. 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
  2. Children are a gift and a heritage unto the Lord.  Psalm 127: 1, 3-5, Psalm 128:3
  3. God knows us before we are even formed. Psalm 139:16, Jeremiah 1:5, Hebrews 7:9-10
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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. 
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I am continuing today to answer some of my reader’s questions. These questions today are from two different readers. They are short and simple but also a chance to get to know me a little better,I suppose.

I thought I’d write and ask, I noticed ya’ll had a reversal,was wondering if it was a vasectomy reversal or a tubal reversal? How long was the journey?

To address your questions, we had a vas. reversal. It was done before our 5th child was born and reversed when she was three.  After the reversal it took six months to conceive (long for us).  It was a long three years of prayer. You can read more about our journey here, Our Quiverfull Journey.

I have been reading your blog. I was just wondering how old you are? You look so young in your picture. I read that you have one going to college or getting a job. I was just curious.

I have not had the “you look so young” comment in a while. You have just made my day! I am currently 36. Some tell me that is still young. LOL! Yes, my oldest started college this January, he is 17.

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