I have been seeing memes mocking women who claim that they are happy having no children. They claim it is a choice they made and they are glad they did.
It may have been a choice they made. That is possible. A quiet life with your little kitty has some appeal. Of course it involves bars on your windows, padlocks on your doors and a fear of going out at night. But the kitty is cute and you don’t need to share your arugula, so it is worth it.
It may have been a choice because a woman has high standards. That can be read from the extreme that no man who meets her standards would consider her, to living in an area where all the men drool and drink Bud Lite. In the middle are the women who might have made a choice to become a nun or do some other type of service that was better done single. The problem with that is those women would not claim giving up children was a joy. It may have been necessary but was a sacrifice.
The Bible culture viewed a woman who has no children as cursed. That may not have been what the Bible actually said but that is how people viewed it. Part of this is because children are viewed as a blessing. If you did not have them you were not blessed.
(Psa 127:3 KJV) Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.I know women who desperately wanted children but were unable to conceive. Sometimes it was their infertility, sometimes the husbands. We need to be sympathetic to those and somehow be patient with the ones who brag about their lack.
(Psa 127:4 KJV) As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
(Psa 127:5 KJV) Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
May your quiver be full.
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