I can't speak to what God's will is for your life. What I can say is that when we pray, God will only give us what conforms to His will. If it is His will that you have a wife and children, then it will happen, but according to His time. It may be that there is something that you still need to experience before you are ready for that vocation and it is not up to you to determine if you are ready, it is His to determine.
On the other hand, it may be that God has not providentially ordered you to be a husband and father despite what you have been asking for. Sometimes we ask for things that are not in His will and so they will not be granted but it is for us to conform ourselves, that is, lovingly accept what He has given and what He has not given.
One of my collegues, who has taught Vocations for multiple decades, is of the mind that no human ever misses their vocation. That they ultimately, in God's time, hear and respond to the call that God has placed on their heart since the foundation of the world.
It may be that you are called to religious life or the priesthood. It may be that you are called to the married life.
Have hope in God. He will not abandon you. You are in my prayers.
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I can't speak to what God's will is for your life. What I can say is that when we pray, God will only give us what conforms to His will. If it is His will that you have a wife and children, then it will happen, but according to His time. It may be that there is something that you still need to experience before you are ready for that vocation and it is not up to you to determine if you are ready, it is His to determine.
On the other hand, it may be that God has not providentially ordered you to be a husband and father despite what you have been asking for. Sometimes we ask for things that are not in His will and so they will not be granted but it is for us to conform ourselves, that is, lovingly accept what He has given and what He has not given.
One of my collegues, who has taught Vocations for multiple decades, is of the mind that no human ever misses their vocation. That they ultimately, in God's time, hear and respond to the call that God has placed on their heart since the foundation of the world.
It may be that you are called to religious life or the priesthood. It may be that you are called to the married life.
Have hope in God. He will not abandon you. You are in my prayers.