too old

I’ve been slowly moving all my posts from my old blog over to this one. I wanted to do it “by hand” because there are lots I would eliminate as they aren’t relevant. And all those typos. Oh my gosh, I’m such a skimmer. I have about 500 more to move….many I just put up under their original date, so they don’t show up on your email, because that would feel kinda spammy to get ten or more old posts per week. But often one jumps out at me, and I put it up as a new post. This week, there has been a couple of those….this was originally published April 12, 2012:

I am 48 years old. Huckleberry, sitting up at the island in the kitchen the other day says to me, "mama, do you think you'll have another baby? I would love another baby. A little girl, maybe. Little girls are so cute. Or a boy. Baby boys are really cute too. I would like to see a baby be born, too. I'm the only one who didn't get to see a baby be born. Do you think you will have another baby?"

Well, honey.  I doubt it.  I would be willing to have another baby, if God gave me one.  But the fact is, that at a certain age, your body just doesn't conceive babies anymore.  That's God's plan.  I might be too old.

He was outraged.  "Too old?!  Are you crazy?  You aren't too old to have a baby!!  You just had Rosebud five years ago and you weren't too old then.  That's ridiculous.  You aren't too old."

I am glad he feels that way.  But. 

Huckleberry and God may disagree on this point.  I myself, may even disagree on this point, that I should have to be too old to have a baby.  But what a beautiful testimony it was, to have my boy, nine years old, to tell me there is no way that I am too old to have a baby.  What a world he lives in to see that it should not be "we" who decides when we are too old to have a baby, but God almighty.

Ask any woman on the street that you might find and ask her if 48 is too old.  Ask any woman if seven is too many.  Ask if married contraceptive union is normal, natural.  Ask if conjugal love leads to babies.  ASK.  These are questions that my nine year old can answer.  These are questions that any child raised in the culture of life knows the answer to.

There is nothing else but openness to God's will for babies.  There is no baby you would not welcome, 48 or not, perfect circumstances, perfect baby or not. Unplanned, unexpected. Yes.  Do not attempt to stay the author's hand. Openness to babies, is perhaps, the most formative of pro-life work for our culture.  Within our own families. Taking the message out in to the world.  To have these no nonsense, no way, give me the straight goods kids hit the streets.

That's cool.