hold together the hope of having children with the vision of building a home that will be a fruitful part of God’s good world. We see this unified vision, for example, in a kind of photographic negative in the threefold curse of Deuteronomy 28:30, where we read of three linked consequences of disobedience to God by God’s covenant people. First, “You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her.” Second, “You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it.” And third, “You shall plant a