Love, love, love this quote! I may start referring to it when nosy strangers decide that it’s their right to comment (negatively) on the size of our family.

It can be a God-pleasing act to have a large, loving, orthodox Lutheran family, and those who are able should not be diverted from this by any self-imposed “green” limit of 2.1 children per couple. LCMS President Pastor Matthew Harrison in the November 2011 issue of The Lutheran Witness