In a home where two hearts are bent on doing the Lord’s Will, Natural Family Planning (NFP) has a way of stacking up the arguments in favor of life.
God can reveal to them whether that inclination to postpone pregnancy once again is for unselfish reasons or if it is born out of a desire for what the world has to offer in its approbations and glamour.
Isn’t it wonderful, that when our sexual passions are not blunted chemically by the Pill, or psychologically emasculated by sterilization, or pleasurably diminished by barrier methods, God can turn these raging rivers of desire – which we thought would once destroy us in our youth – into God’s conduit to create new people in His image?
Passion, now in its true home of marriage, should not be unnaturally fettered, but rather embraced in all its ebbs and flows. Sometimes it’s winter, sometimes it’s summer.
You will come to realize that waiting for conception (if you truly need to wait) should not be dominated not by a fear of the future, but by a waiting for God’s greater timing in His plans for our lives.