Hi I'm Anna,

I am a wife to my wonderful husband of 5 years. A home maker in my humble home, and a mom of two beautiful girls. I am excited to share with you my love for these things and how all of that relates to our creator. I grew up in an average conservative Christian home where my dad worked, and my mother was home to care for me and my three siblings. I met my husband Jeff at 14 in our freshman year of highschool in 2015, and we Married in December of 2018. I started College a semester before we married and completed an associate's degree in biblical and theological studies in 2020, since then I have continued to explore and study the word of God because I love to learn about our maker.

 

Although I had dreamed of being a stay-at-home mom since I was a little child, I started the pill in 2018 a month before my wedding because I thought that's just when everyone else did and I was told I should wait at least a year before having babies to get comfortable with my husband and settled into our marriage. My husband also agreed it would be good to wait since we weemt financial establielsjednyet and at that time we're living in a studio apartment. Well after 2 years on that I noticed my hormones being all off and our sex life was greatly suffering because of it putting a lot of stress on our marriage. I thought the solution would be a non-hormonal birth control option and switched to the copper IUD for a year before we decided we wanted to start our family.

 

Shortly after the birth of our first baby my precious friend graciously shared with me that the IUD is an abortive device which sent me into a tailspin of research learning about how birth control truly works and the negative impacts it has on a woman's body. The shock and devastation my husband and I felt after learning how it works pushed me to want to tell other women so they didn't have to experience the pain, anger and disappointment that I did.

 

I felt like I had been lied to by my doctor and not only had it hurt my marriage but may have caused us to loose our sweet babies we never knew we had. I am still struggling to process the pain of this loss and I'm trying hard to forgive myself for my ignorance. This blog is one way I can feel some comfort knowing I might be able to protect you from that same hurt.

 

We now use natural family planning methods and fertility awarness and trust God's will for our family and believe that "His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts." (Isaiah 55:9). I have also learned that much of the church has slipped into a worldly perspective on the family and children or is silent on the subject and leaves people vulnerable to the ways of the culture and I want to be a voice that changes that.

 

I have also been having to relearn what God's word says about sex and marriage because of the damage that was done in this area of my life by birth control as well. Through that I am learning that God's plans for sex and children are far greater that personal gratification but both are a reflection of Him and are to further His Kingdom. God created both sex and children as a good and beautiful gift to a husband and wife. I want to take them back from culture and celebrate them in the light of God's word.

 

Thank you for being here! I welcome you to join me on this journey of learning how to see sex and children the way God does and stop believing the lies the world has told us about them. God has brought you hear for a reason and I hope I can do justice in sharing what He has for you. Love you friend, God bless you!