“I’m aware that we didn’t follow the bible, and that does bother me. I can promise you this though: I do pray about it, and we are very serious.”
By LJ Herman -
‘He gave me a house before a ring and that’s OK’
By LJ Herman -
The call came at midnight, ‘We have a 3-year-old girl at the hospital. Her mom was shot, Her dad has been arrested. Can you come pick her up?’
“Calls from DHS are like a Create-Your-Own-Adventure Game. Each ‘yes’ takes your family on a wild new adventure you never expected.”
By LJ Herman -
‘I realize love is the most powerful, the most exhausting, the most incredible way to live your life’
“Now, watching my dad care for my mom, I realize love is the most powerful, the most exhausting, the most incredible way to live your life — from beginning to end.”
By Eliza Murphy -
‘To my middle school son, I have a few things I’d like you to know’
“You were designed perfectly, imperfect. You will make mistakes. Do and say dumb things. Have some regrets. But, you will also overcome.”
By Eliza Murphy -
I was the perfect mom. Until I had kids.
“That’s when I saw you. A beautiful young woman who presumably doesn’t yet have children of her own. Another perfect (albeit, kidless) mom, just as I had been once upon a time. I recognized the look in your eyes.”
By LJ Herman -
‘It took my breath away’: Mom uses shattered mirror as beautiful lesson of love
“Sometimes things break. Sometimes we break them. It’s not the breaking that matters, the how or why. What matters is how we choose to respond to the broken-ness.”
By LWM Staff -