Family Preparation

 today i would like to write on a more personal level.

How does one go about preparing to have a family? how do we know it is time? how do we know we are ready to raise and teach children how to live in these times? these are some of the questions i have asked myself. i don’t know when i am supposed to have kids but i know right now is not the time for my husband and i. I feel like not all of these questions can even be answered but some, i feel like i am just counting on that, i will just know when i am ready. there are so many uncertainties in life when it comes to starting a family and many things you must prepare for. this alone has been a road block to me when it comes to the topic of having children. quite frankly i’m scared to have kids and right now i don’t want to have kids because of my fear. but then i have to ask myself, is that selfish? we believe that it is our duty, if we are able, to have kids when we get married. i have so many friends that have been married just a year and already have a child or two. i’ve been married for a little under a year and a half and i don’t feel ready for kids but i do feel a pressure to have them. something that helps me through this pressure is the knowledge that everyone has their own time and that i will be loved and supported even if i chose not to have kids right now. Discovering that i might not ever want kids has been difficult. especially since i grew up talking about family’s and how important they are. i also grew up with the idea that a family isn’t complete with out children. i feel like within the next 5 years many things can happen that could influence my perspective of having children. what can i do to trust in God more when it comes to having children? there is so much worry about not being a good enough parent of preparing for the worst with your child. what ever that is to you. i know many people that have trouble sharing personal things but for me it has never been a problem to express myself and that is why i write this. i hope to let anyone who reads this who might be struggling with the same thing as i am they can feel comfort in knowing they are not alone. maybe children are not for everyone. maybe we do not have to have children to have a complete family. im so scared of the world i live in now. and i understand it it no way to live if you always live in fear but it’s not just me in scared for. it would be the lives of my children who i would be responsible for when things go wrong. and i’m just not ready for that. i don’t know if i will ever be ready for that. but that is why we have time no? time changes people and maybe just maybe i will believe that love is greater than fear and i will find that i am ready to start a family. but until then what do we do. well we prepare ourselves by growing in the relationship we currently have. we teach ourselves what we do and don’t want in our families for the future and we trust in God.


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