November/December 2024
Years ago, I was talking with a psychiatrist who had been assigned to write a report on a local sex murder crime. He told me that our sex drive is the strongest human emotion. I thought he was exaggerating until several years later, we were expecting our fifth child in eight years. I felt having this child was a mistake. We hadn’t planned for this pregnancy, we hadn’t exercised self-control, we hadn’t used any of many cultural safeguards available to avoid getting pregnant. God, however, saw this as an opportunity.
A few weeks later, we attended a conference on spiritual growth. At one of the noon lunches, I mentioned that we were having an unexpected fifth child. Several Christian friends confronted me and said I was a problem in our culture, not an answer. I came to realize I needed Holy Spirit help in the area of sexual relations. Within days, a born again experience followed.
Recently, we celebrated seventy one years of a very enjoyable marriage with five children and numerous grand-children and great grandchildren.
Unwanted pregnancies are even more common today despite the many helps available to prevent pregnancy. This has led me to think. We all make mistakes and it is generally understood that people who make mistakes should be the o ...
