Survival of the Serious

by Brian Killian on December 19, 2009

If you’re practicing Natural Family Planning, it quickly becomes evident that it’s hard to abstain during the fertile period. It’s so hard, that no one could do it without serious reasons. No frivolous reason can stand up to the force of Nature to keep life in bloom. NFP is like a motive filter. It rejects most of the selfish and superficial motives couples have to avoid children and ensures that only the most serious motive survives. You don’t have to worry if your reasons are serious or not, the sacrifice of abstinence will put them to the test.


{ 3 comments… read them below or add one }

1 Michelle aka Catholic Lady December 29, 2009 at 4:37 am

Very nicely said!

2 Elizabeth January 4, 2010 at 6:33 pm

Oh, that’s good!

3 Joan Wagner April 22, 2010 at 3:22 pm

I was just thinking that the ones with the most frivolous and selfish reasons would make the worst parents. Yet with NFP they will the most likely BE parents. Of course, couples who use NFP aren’t likely to be all that frivolous to begin with.

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