What is the next right thing to do? Single moms can often feel like they live in a whirlwind, but PeggySue Wells and Pam Farrel give easy and practical steps to help them do the next right thing.
Here’s an excerpt from this interview on Family Life Today:
Because you either are a single mom, or because you are raised by a single mom, that is just an experience that feeds into who you are and into the tapestry of your life; but it’s not an identity. It’s not a stamp, like, “Oh, you’re never going to outgrow this.”
Now, [she] and Bill are traveling the world, helping people have really strong marriages; so I’m like, “You’re the one I want!” I wouldn’t let her go; she got on board. The information that she put into this book is so powerful, for the two of us writing together, because she has such great experience. I’ve had people pick up this book; and they say, “There’s such great parenting stuff in here!”
Right Church
But going back, if I could go back and do things again, I would say, “If the church that I am in—or that you are in—isn’t a place where you feel like you can be vulnerable, and be open, and get that support, I would say, ‘Please look around in your community and find that somewhere.’” Because that just might not be the chosen place for you to be right now. There is a good church somewhere, who’s going to understand you, and who is going to embrace you, and who will be that place like what Pam had when she was young, where: “This is what healthy family looks like!” “This is what healthy relationships look like,” and “Oh, yeah! We all need a Savior; nobody’s life is perfect. You can be not perfect here.”
