After Joshua Stephen was born, we met a lady with five or six children who challenged me to consider trusting God to have children.  What a novel thought!  I spent the next few months searching scriptures to discover God’s viewpoint on birth control and children.  I couldn’t find anything negative about children and nothing positive about birth control.  What a decision for me!  I knew that because of my missing organs, this could be a life threatening undertaking.  How big was the God I said I believed in?  Did I have real faith to believe that God could and would open and close the womb as the scriptures said?  I came to the place that God was big enough to keep me through such a situation.  I felt I should have the same attitude as Mary’s when told she would have Jesus, “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.”  I shared my thoughts with Lawrence.  He also searched Scriptures and he reached the same conclusions.

Sometime during or after the second pregnancy, I committed to not only trusting the Lord to have children; but also committed to being cheerful in having children. After this decision I looked forward to another baby.  The Lord had some humor in not allowing me to have another baby for four years.  He showed me that He indeed could close the womb.

During my first two pregnancies I looked to the medical establishment for understanding about my missing organs and all I found were conflicting thoughts. If they really were unnecessary why had God put a spleen there, or two kidneys, or any other organ?  Why did I feel so sick when I ate nutrition-deprived foods?  Why did I seem weaker than other healthy people?  When a three-day cold went around, why did it last with me for weeks?  Why was I so anemic in pregnancies?  After delivery of a baby, why was I so weak with recovery and bleeding for weeks longer than my friends?  Thankfully, I had a supportive husband who cared about all these issues.