A high and holy calling
"I don't have a problem with large families but if you aren't going to train your children to be nice, respectful and well-behaved I don't think you should have them. It's not fair to the rest of us. I have run across people with the 'quiver-full' belief and their attitude has been 'it doesn't matter how my kids behave, you have to just put up with it.' -Mrs. B"
Great comment, Mrs. B! I wanted to address this to make it clear that I am not promoting irresponsibility. If the Lord calls you to have many children, He also calls you to give of yourself to train and raise those children to the glory of God! God will give you the grace to do so, if you trust Him for it-- no matter whether you have 2 or 10 or 20 children. I'm not advocating that you just pop out a bunch of children and let them fend for themselves! Parenting is a huge responsibility and a high and holy calling.
Great comment, Mrs. B! I wanted to address this to make it clear that I am not promoting irresponsibility. If the Lord calls you to have many children, He also calls you to give of yourself to train and raise those children to the glory of God! God will give you the grace to do so, if you trust Him for it-- no matter whether you have 2 or 10 or 20 children. I'm not advocating that you just pop out a bunch of children and let them fend for themselves! Parenting is a huge responsibility and a high and holy calling.
posted by Crystal Paine at 3:29 PM
3 Comments:
Amen to that!
And I third that! :-)
Absolutely! I am pleased when my children garner lavish compliments from strangers, but not because my ego has been stroked. We want them to see and believe that children are truly a blessing! We don't want to become the poster family for birth control; we don't want people to see us and think, "That's why I only had 1 child."
As a large family our public appearance reflects upon Christ. Strangers see a large family and automatically assume that we are Christians and homeschoolers. Really, they do! That puts a burden on us to be sure our conduct is joyful, orderly, well-mannered, and all-things-Christ-like (Ph 1:26-7, I Cor 14:40).
(shamelessly plagarized from my own blog for the occasion - since I'm running short on brain cells this morning but really wanted to comment)
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