Came across a great article for Catholic Dads at Voices for Life. Check out the full article at: Voices for Life: Ten Great Reasons To Have Another Child. I have the headlines below, but read the rationale and explanation behind each at the original site.
REASON ONE: Have another child to join with God in the creation of an immortal soul.
REASON TWO: Have another child to bring joy into your life.
REASON THREE: Have another child to grown in holiness and virtue.
REASON FOUR: Have another child to help end abortion.
REASON FIVE: Have another child so your sons will have brothers and your daughters will have sisters.
REASON FIVE A: Have another child so your sons will have sisters and your daughters will have brothers.
REASON SIX: Have another child so you (and your parents) won´t be lonely in old age.
REASON SEVEN: Have another child because people are our greatest resource.
REASON EIGHT: Have another child to contribute to the economy.
REASON NINE: Have another child to counter global depopulation.
REASON TEN: Have another child to help populate heaven.
Good reasons indeed!
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I've got another reason, from G. K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy, chapter 4:
The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is due not to my activity, but to my inaction. Now, to put the matter in a popular phrase, it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.
I've discovered that conceiving another child is my soul's way of looking at my previous seven children and crying out, "Do it again!"