Being Fruitful

Written by Arpee on June 8, 2008 – 6:14 pm -

I was thinking about what the blog title of my infertility journey was going to be instead of what I’ve thought through earlier. A verse in the bible entered my mind - something about God telling Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply”.

I opened www.biblegateway.com and used “multiply” as the search word. The search results showed verses starting with Genesis 9 which was already about Noah. I thought, hmmm, all this time did I mistakenly attribute this phrase as being spoken to Adam and Eve?

So I did another search and used “be fruitful” as the search phrase. And lo and behold, God indeed spoke this to Adam and Eve in Genesis 1!

I meant the blog title to reflect God’s direction to be physiologically fruitful (have children) as in the context of Genesis 1:8 and Genesis 9:1. However as I was thinking more about it, I realized that being fruitful is more than just trying to conceive, getting pregnant and bearing children.

Even in the midst of the infertility journey, surely there is fruitfulness for a woman. So although, the emphasis of this blog is on being fruitful - the baby kind - I would be writing about fruitfulness of a different kind from time to time.