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Why have children?

October 12, 2009 by Amy Welborn

I don’t have any sort of Sitemeter on this blog, but WordPress does have a stats function. Every day – every single day, at least one person comes to this blog with the query,

Why have children?

And it’s usually more than one. Today it was four.

I was curious about that, so I googled the phrase, and this is the blog post that comes up under that search:

Heh.

But seriously, folks, if you have come here with that question, here’s a better answer.

Why have children?

Because when you have a child, you are helping to make a new person who will live, love and be in this world like no other person before or since.

Now, if you are religious (and you should be! You didn’t create yourself, you know!), you can add another layer of truth to that:

who will set out on a unique journey, loved by and loving God – a journey that will take that child, you pray, into God’s presence forever.

Basic point:

Have children.  Because as you get older you’ll see, in abashed humility (because of all the things you did wrong in their raising)  that the most important, coolest thing you have ever done in your life is play whatever part God has graced you to play in setting interesting new people loose in God’s world.  Everything else pales.

And this reason has nothing to do with your legacy or your name or your physical desires to be a mommy or daddy or your unfulfilled dreams or wishes. These children will someday leave you in the dust. Literally.  It’s about the gift of them – not to you, even, but to God and God’s world.

Oh, and staff. That, too.

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