How's that for timing! We are thrilled beyond belief for the privilege of being parents. And, we know that this is certainly God's doing, and certainly his timing. Goodness knows we've tried. The difference now, that makes it feel very much like God and not us? We recently decided it wasn't up to us. We changed our mindset completely. Before, we thought it was up to us to decide the plan, to work the plan, and to eventually execute plan baby.
But recently, we read some things that stopped our plans cold, and made us happy to lay them down.
We read two really key things. One was a paraphrase of John Paul II, that each human is a complete person, created in the image of God. We saw the outworking of that idea in this paragraph from a document called Donum Vitae: (emphasis mine)
"On the part of the spouses, the desire for a child is natural: it expresses the vocation to fatherhood and motherhood inscribed in conjugal love. This desire can be even stronger if the couple is affected by sterility which appears incurable. Nevertheless, marriage does not confer upon the spouses the right to have a child, but only the right to perform those natural acts which are per se ordered to procreation.
A true and proper right to a child would be contrary to the child's dignity and nature. The child is not an object to which one has a right, nor can he be considered as an object of ownership: rather, a child is a gift, "the supreme gift" and the most gratuitous gift of marriage, and is a living testimony of the mutual giving of his parents. For this reason, the child has the right, as already mentioned, to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents; and he also has the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception." (Donum Vitae)
We immediately knew that we had to scrap the plan, we had to rely on God to order our plans and provide our resources.
So, join us as we ride the waves.
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