The recent “Born to Breed” episode of “Secret Lives of Women” has attracted quite a bit of attention from practicing Quiverfull women ~ and several QF/P blogs are discussing my story and NLQ. I appreciate that quite a few of these blog commenters are giving thoughtful consideration to the message here. But many others are insisting that my Quiverfull “conviction” was a burdensome form of legalism rather than a true calling from the Lord. It is frustrating to read their comments as these women dismiss my Quiverfull experience as irrelevant by concluding that what we were doing in Full post …
Tag: children are a blessing
“Go to Oregon and build an ark”
November 17, 2009
by Journey Mark said we were going to move to Oregon. I didn’t want to move to Oregon (I hated the rain), and I told him so, but that didn’t matter. He had heard from God. More specifically, he had heard God tell him to, “Go to Oregon and build an ark.” What that meant, we did not know, but Mark had heard it quite clearly. I wasn’t about to argue with God. The strange thing was that Mark regularly mocked people who “heard from God” about things. He felt that spiritual gifts were generally abused, Full post …
Why Did She Do That?!
November 6, 2009
Rachel Scott’s crazy-making tactics on the Joy Behar Show Look, Mimi~ I’m on TV! LOL When I first received the phone call asking me to go to New York to be interviewed on the Joy Behar Show ~ I had to admit that I had no idea who Joy Behar is. “I am still pretty culturally illiterate after all my years as a fundamentalist Quiverfuller,” I explained. “We do have cable TV now, but the kids keep it tuned to the Disney Channel.” So, I can tell you all about Demi Levato, Selena Gomez, the Full post …
Psalm 127 ~ blessed is the MAN
November 3, 2009
by Vyckie Throughout my Quiverfull years, I built my life around the basic premise of Psalm 127 ~ Lo, Children are a blessing … Recently, I’ve been thinking that the message “children are a blessing” is maybe not actually the basic premise, but rather, Psalm 127 is really about “blessed is the MAN.” In the ancient patriarchal society of Old Testament times, any man with 6, 8 … 12 children was practically guaranteed to be prosperous and influential. But Psalm 127 really tells us nothing about the condition of the woman who was working her ass Full post …
I was too wiped out and overwhelmed to enjoy the fruits of my labor
November 2, 2009
by Vyckie Shortly after Angel’s first suicide attempt, I remember thinking to myself that all of my children were growing up without me ~ because I was much too worn down physically ~ plus what little energy I did have was all being zapped from me daily as I tried to make life with their overbearing, micro-managing, hyper-critical, narcissistic father as painless as possible for the children. Despite my efforts, they were all obviously beaten-down and discouraged to the point that we had become of family of zombies ~ excepting, of course, for Warren ~ Full post …
Lo, children ARE a blessing …
July 9, 2009
by Vyckie It is true ~ I am abundantly blessed … No Longer Quivering has been up and running for less than 4 months ~ and in that short time, I think the blog and forums have already developed quite a community to provide a fair amount of stories and info. which illustrate some of the very real problems with the quiverfull worldview and lifestyle. Just this morning, however ~ as I was looking at the posts here and trying to get a feel of the overall tone of NLQ ~ I noticed Full post …
I Have Too Many Kids!
April 4, 2009
Kiss me right there, Mom! I’m up way too late working on my story ~ thought I’d take a break for a minute and go moderate comments. I found the following from “Cynthia” and started to post my own comment in reply ~ but after typing for a bit, decided I don’t want this buried in the comments section ~ it needs to be a post of its own. Here’s what Cynthia wrote: Wow, I am amazed how so many things seem to be falling into a straight line for me regarding this Full post …
It’s a KID COLLECTING COMPETITION
March 24, 2009
by Vyckie Hazelle with her little lamb collection. When I was “trusting the Lord with our family planning.” I never called my children “kids” ~ they were PRECIOUS LAMBS, because as Nancy Campbell explained, “kids” are what neglectful goats have while lambs are the offspring of sheep. A few random thoughts on the topic of having lots of kids: *** Recently I took my children and a neighbor girl to the theater to watch Race to Witch Mountain. Sitting in the dark watching the previews, I noticed a lady coming up the aisle with a Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
