It is estimated that 40% of women born in the 80's will never marry or have children. They reference women because of the child-bearing, but that number would obviously affect men as well. I read this statistic a couple months ago. I've thought about it a lot. I don't have a lot to share, though.
Is it a good thing?
Is it a bad thing?
Is it indifferent?
..and then I wonder about that whole.. Area of life. Relationships. Marriage. At a get-together a while back somebody in a game wrote that they wanted to be, or thought they would be a good mother. Someone commended them on their courage to say that.
Isn't that normal, though? To want to be a wife and a mother, or a husband and a father?
It's just something that seems to be taboo to speak about openly.. The fact that you may be unmarried and deeply long for a spouse.
Why is that?
Do we feel guilty for longing for something other than the supremacy of God?
Do feel that we aren't at peace if we long for that?
It's interesting.
Maybe I think and pray about it more than most people do.. Maybe more than I should.
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him.
The sun is setting. I need to get home. I might regret clicking 'publish post'.
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