bluiis | Entries tagged with children

Let me vent for a moment. I was one of my baby magazines the other day, and every month asks a question for people to respond to. The one that was responded to this month was "Can you have too many children?" Now, I expected many yeses because of today's society. No one values children anymore. But I was not prepared for over 70% of the people who responded to say yes, especially when over 40,000 people responded to the question.

Hello! Children are a gift from God. They usually present three responses from both sides of the issue. Two of the three say they have problems with their two or three, and more would be impossible, and the other said you wouldn't have enough time or love to go around. I only want three, but I'm sorry, if love is anything like I think, it grows, it doesn't shrink. So if I wanted to have 6 or 10 or 19 children, though it would be difficult at times, I would love them all, and find time for all of them.

I don't know why children are considered so lowly. I mean, I do, because of abortion and all that, but they're people too. I think people sometimes forget that. I work with them all day, 5 days a week, and they understand more than people give them credit for. They are important; we were all children once. What if our mothers had simply decided not to have any more children and stopped? Or in my case, decided to never have any at all? But no one ever thinks about that.

Anyway, let me get down from my soap box. It just makes me so upset when people say and believe things like that.

Actually, I'm in a pretty good mood. I love Jill, but she's been gone since around 5 yesterday afternoon, and I'll get her back around the same time today. Me and Jon went on a date last night <dreamy sigh> and we're taking our teen class canoeing later today. In about five minutes, Jeremy, a guy from where Jon works (and whom we both know from PCC), will be here to teach me some stuff I'll need to know when I start working from the church. So I gotta run!