If It Had Not Been for the Lord is the companion book to The Seed of My Womb. The two books look at a life-altering injury from the perspective of a son (Wendell M. Manigault Jr.) who was nearly killed in an accident and his mother (Paulette M. Vanderhorst - The seed of my Womb) who offered her loving support. In this compelling autobiography he details life before his injury after his injury and the incident that led to it. By sharing his story his goal is to reverse the mistakes of his past by