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Imagine a new trend…people found out that they could get a lot more work done if they got a catheter. Think of it, you could go for hours without the need to stop and go to the restroom. At first people are hesitant, but after a while it catches on. Then one day somebody gets the idea that they don’t want to use a catheter–they found it caused infection and just doesn’t seem normal. Problem: the “norm” has been changed. And now, if you don’t have a catheter, you’re weird. So, authors start writing books, blogs and articles about how it’s “OK” to go catheterless. And despite all the encouragement, those catheterless people will continue to receive criticism simply for not interfering with nature. If you ask me, that’s insane. Should people be allowed to get catheters if they want them? SURE! But should that be the norm?

You’re smirking at my example. And yet, it’s entirely comparable to the birth control issue with one difference: there is a lot more at stake…namely, living people.

What would I say to a young, new mother?

1.Keep your eyes on Him who gives life. Ridicule will come–be sure of it. If the Lord has shown you that “it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves”, you can get it settled in your heart that every child born into your home is a good gift and then set your face like flint to the Son. If He blesses you with many children, pray that it will be an instrument through which you can glorify Him as you become “set apart” in a culture hostile to life.

2.Research all the health benefits from having babies, avoiding birth control, ovulating less and breastfeeding. Every bit of research I have done about health-related issues has only confirmed God’s design for our bodies.

3.Keep far-sighted vision. We have to train ourselves in this society to look past today. In an instant-gratification kind of culture, it is harder and harder to invest our time and energy into things that can take years to see the final product of our labors. Keeping our eyes focused on heavenly things–the immortal souls of our children–provides the needed stamina to keep at a job that may seem never-ending.

4.Stay mission-minded. Motherhood is a natural calling a woman can embrace with full confidence that this is God’s will for her life. It doesn’t require a plan on our part, a decision we have to make or second-guess. It’s usually the natural result of marital love. And if and when it comes, it is our mission field. Think of it as such. No missionary ever used the ease or hardship of his circumstance as a measure of God’s will in his ministry. Nor should we. The Christian life doesn’t promise anything beyond basic needs regarding our physical realm. Consider arguments like “affordability”: If God said he would take care of His own, emphasizing with the statement, “O ye of little faith”, we mock Him to assume we need to take control out of His hands. ”His own” includes our children, since He, in fact, is the author of life.

It is a foreign idea that motherhood and childbearing are natural parts of life. I certainly did not grow up with the idea that childbearing is a natural part of life, I know very few women who truly believe so. We are not "quiverfull" in the sense that we let God direct the time and spacing of our children, but we do believe that children are blessings from the Lord. And we do reject the modern ideals about children. This article does make you think...