One Sunday, right after my wife and I married, I sat through a Mormon priesthood lesson as the instructor decried the use of birth control. He testified that preventing pregnancy was of the devil.
I went home and told my wife. Although not emotionally or financially ready for a family, we nevertheless tossed our birth control and were pregnant 24 hours later. Nine months after that, we had a daughter.
We struggled a lot in those early years simply because we surrendered a personal decision to ...
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