Praying for Children: What Is a Proper Attitude Concerning Children?

People often pray for children. Young couples often talk about how many children they want to have when they get married. That a married couple would include such a petition in their prayers is good. Their act of asking God for a child indicates that they see themselves as dependent on God. They ought not simply to assume that they can have children or that they will have children. Sometimes, God, according to His infinite wisdom, closes wombs, preventing conception and/or birth. The fact...