It's Thanksgiving week, so I'm counting my blessings, and my 12 children are right up there at the top of the list.

Another thing I'm grateful for? The fact my husband didn't cut my childbearing years short by getting a vasectomy, though he definitely considered it at one point.

Listen to this week's episode to hear why, and to learn what stopped him from going through with it.

- Colossians 1:16-17 - "...all things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together."

- Hebrews 1:3 - "The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His being, sustaining all things by His powerful word."

- Revelation 4:11 - “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.”

- 1 Corinthians 8:6 - "...there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom all things came and through Whom we live."

- More than Meets the Eye - this is the book by Richard Swenson that made such an impression on my husband (I don't think I gave the title in the podcast)

- Always Open: 5 Reasons I Love Having My Tubes Intact - my response to an article from the other side of the issue, written by a woman who was grateful to have hers tied

- Postponing Motherhood: At What Cost? - my review of Holly Grigg-Spall's Sweetening the Pill