Chatting with a friend about IF today:

We have struggled with deciding how much technology and medical intervention to use to have a child. We trust that God is in control, no matter what we do, and that helps us accept unwanted negative results.

On the one hand, DH and I think of Abraham and Sarah, and Elizabeth, and Hannah. If He could make them pregnant after being barren, then he can do it for us, too.

But on the other hand, there is a story about a man whose town was getting lots of heavy rain... the authorities were telling people to evacuate to higher ground, but the man said "God will take care of me," and he would not leave his house. When the water was up to his front porch, a boat came up the street and people offered to take him to a safe place, but he refused saying, "God will take care of me." So he went upstairs and the water continued to rise. A second boat came along. The people talked to him through the 2nd story window, begging him to come with them, but again he refused saying, "God will take care of me." The water kept rising and the man climbed onto his roof. A helicopter flew over, a rope lowered, and a voice from a bull horn said to grab the rope, but he yelled back, "God will take care of me." The water kept rising and the man drowned.

When the man got to heaven, he asked God, "Why didn't you take care of me as you promised?". God answered, "I sent two boats and a helicopter, what more did you want?"

Perhaps the medical treatments available are gifts from God to give us more chances. That's how we are looking at IVF right now. If God has allowed humans to understand the creation of life enough to help it along sometimes, then it's okay to use that technology as long as we believe that God is still in control.