God, Is It Okay For Us To Have Children? (Part 1)

What I found when I read the Bible looking for an answer

God, is this okay?

It’s a question I know well. I’ve spent most of my life navigating the tension between earnestly wanting to do the right thing and being someone whose life doesn’t fit the mold of what the right thing is supposed to look like.

I grew up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, where family wasn’t just important, it was everything. Woven into every lesson, every talk, every conversation about what a meaningful life looked like. There was always a plan: you grow up, you get married in the temple as husband and wife, and you have children in a family that will last forever…