My wife, years ago wanted to go to some major play in Denver at some opera house or theatre. We took our three daughters and one of their girlfriends. So we had five girls on the trip counting my wife.

We went out to eat before the play in a fancy restaurant in downtown near the theatre. After we had ordered our meals my wife and all the girls left the table to go to the powder room.

Our waitress came over to the table immediately after the girls were out of sight and said, “What’s it like at your house with five women?” I answered, “Our male dog just recently died and our male cat runs around scared and hides a lot when the screaming, crying and yelling begins.” The waitress eyes were getting bigger by the minute as I talked to her. I then said, “We also see children as a blessing from God, just like the Bible says.”

Later that evening, I thought about the waitress and my exchange with her. The waitress was an early twenty something year old woman. Who knows what she was thinking about and why she asked me what it was like at our house? In the world today of abortions, transgender, homosexuality and contraceptives advertised in the media and families looked at strangely if they have more than two kids; maybe she just needed to hear that we saw children as a blessing from God.

An old farmer told me years ago that the best thing we raise in Kansas isn’t cattle or row crops, it is children and we all should have had a couple more!

Psalm 127: 3-5 Children are a gift from the LORD; they are a reward from him. Children born to a young man are like arrows in a warrior’s hands. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them!