and families.  Unfortunately, our culture so presents the nature of sexual activity as normal and expected that the concept of refraining from engaging in the activity which produces babies when one is not ready for a baby is a foreign concept. Contraception is supposed to prevent that unwanted outcome.
       A young woman was engaged to be married. When she was found to be pregnant, the culture of the time and place allowed her betrothed to have her executed. Out of compassion for her, he rather decided to quietly end the relationship. Mary had not planned to become pregnant with Jesus, and in her unmarried state, the pregnancy certainly presented potential dangers. But she accepted God’s plan for her, and after Joseph heard in a dream that he should accept Mary into his care, gave birth to our Lord and Savior.

God loves us all with an incredible love – a love that sent his own Son to suffer and die on our behalf. Everything He does for us is done out of love – and therefore it is the best possible thing that can happen to us. It may not seem that way to us, but He sees the big, eternal picture, not just our immediate comfort level. He knows all the circumstances and he chooses to create life because he knows that that son or daughter will be a gift and a blessing.