“Our journey has been the absolute hardest we will ever endure. Not one single day goes by where she is not on my mind.”
‘I would have to carry my baby girl until she passed away in the womb. Our world stood still.’
‘I’m going to see my friend, Harold.’ A stranger. I look back, and I see our garbage man on his knees next to my father.’: Garbage man comforts old man with Alzheimer’s
“My father saw me crying the night before. I’m typically a very upbeat person but I was having a ‘feel sorry for myself’ moment. As I sat on the porch, I heard the garbage truck in the distance, and my father walking down the driveway. ‘I would like a moment with Harold so we can pray for you.’ Our garbage man, a stranger, was on his knees praying with my father for me as I was ugly crying. This disease can never stop my father’s love.”
Dear Parents Battling Gender Disappointment: Don’t Let Your Feelings Cause Guilt
“No matter what happens, the day you‘re holding a healthy baby in your arms is the day nothing in the world could matter less than whether the balloons were pink or blue.”
‘I couldn’t do it anymore. I didn’t want to die. My son needed me.’ Single mom ‘didn’t choose to be an alcoholic’
“One glass of wine after work turned into three. Then turned into taking shots of vodka before work, going to get vodka on my lunch break, and driving home at night to have more alcohol.”
‘Hey, I know you and Ash have been wanting to foster. Talk with your wife and let me know what’s up.’: Family adopts 6 children after struggling with infertility
“I called my brother and he explained to me: ‘Man, you know what? I just found out the 3 are actually part of a family of 6… now I know this seems like a bit of a jump, but I know if anyone can do it, you and your wife can.”
‘He lives in Heaven, so he has special powers that tell him where to set the pennies so we will see them!’
“At my father’s funeral, a friend came up to me with a penny in her hand. She said, ‘This was sitting at my feet during the service, I think it’s supposed to be yours. It looks like your dad is trying to say hi.’ It was one of the first ‘signs’ my dad sent me.”
‘I was on drugs, depressed, and close to a divorce. I had gone a month without bathing or brushing my hair’: Pill addicted mom overcomes personal demons to care for autistic son
“I started taking up to 30 Lortabs a day. Yes, 30. I was hooked on pills, and I was going to the methadone clinic every day. I hated it. I was a slave.”
‘For 250 days, we held you in our hearts. Today, we hold you in our arms.’: Fort Hood soldier’s reunion with family will move you to tears
“The day before Bryan was supposed to come home, we received the devastating news that he wouldn’t be home the next day and that we had to wait 5 more days, which won’t seem like a lot to some people, but those days felt like years.”
‘As we entered our street, the driver said, ‘Which house is it? Oh…never mind, you’ve got quite a crowd waiting.’: Parents overwhelmed by homecoming surprise after newborn daughter spends 195 days in the hospital
“I looked out the ambulance window and started bawling as I saw the crowd so excitedly yelling for Ellie. I couldn’t help but think about heaven, and how I could taste a small glimpse of what it will be like.”
I Don’t Want To Raise Church Kids
“Matter of fact, it’s one of my biggest fears.”