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Trusting God When Life Hurts, Act VI: Looking at Christ

Trusting God When Life Hurts, Act VI: Looking at Christ

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Aug 10, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 0 comments

“We are all under the Mercy, and Christ knows the precise weight and proportion of our sufferings—he bore them. He carried our sorrows. He suffered, not that we might not suffer, but that our sufferings might be like his,” wrote the 19th-century Scottish author George...
Father searches for lost son

Father searches for lost son

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 19, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 0 comments

Sometimes, in my daily reading, I cross a news story of suffering so great, I can’t fathom it. This week I felt that way learning of the eighty Cameroon children rescued from the terrorist organization Boko Haram—children who’d been in captivity so long they no longer...
Prayer changes things

Prayer changes things

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 11, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 2 comments

Having long worshiped in churches where prayer is preached as a means of healing and attainment, both for oneself and others, I’ve struggled to understand how it works. Do my fervent pleas change God’s mind, as did Moses’? God was so angry with the Hebrew people that...
Trusting God, despite losses

Trusting God, despite losses

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Mar 3, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 2 comments

Losing someone you love often disturbs your relationship not just with them, but with God. Four years ago this February, my husband and I lost our beloved daughter Ruth, shortly before she turned 8. This winter I lost my vibrant, hardworking missionary mom to cancer...
To an oldest son, turning eighteen

To an oldest son, turning eighteen

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 25, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 2 comments

People said it would go fast, these years of raising children. I was sure they were wrong. Maybe because for many years we homeschooled, or because we had six children, or because our daughter Ruth had profound special needs—but some days dragged by so slow, I was...
Love that lasts all year long

Love that lasts all year long

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 16, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 0 comments

The first Valentine’s Day flowers I received were during my freshmen year at a small Bible school in Rhode Island. All day, floral delivery drivers crisscrossed the school grounds, delivering bright bouquets to triumphant classmates. I’d been dating the same boy for...
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