Here is an edifying reflection upon the experience of childlessness, solidly grounded in the perspective of the transitory, preparatory nature of this life, for those who are in Christ: https://www.christianitytoday.com/2026/03/karen-swallow-prior-infertility-childlessness-womanhood/. Natural human families, with all their potential for blessing, will come to an end; the Christian family will not. And, as pointed out, the church has a large opportunity to manifest its true nature in how the married, single, child-less and those with children can live together as the body of Christ, mutually helping and serving eachother.
On the theme of this mutual help and service, today I was with someone who had just visited a family with a severely handicapped child for the first time. She told us how seeing the child's situation had made her weep. It was a blessing to see her eyes being opened to the needs and opportunities, again, to show and be the difference that Jesus Christ has shown us and been for us, in the lives of others. The opportunity that Jesus Christ gives us to show who he is to the world is enormous - are we looking for it?
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