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Fighting back with joy

Fighting back with joy

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

  We often talk of fighting cancer, of fighting to overcome addiction, of fighting to save a marriage or of fighting for our life. These words make me think of boxing gloves and raised fists. Of battling hard and getting bruised and maybe losing a few teeth....
Losing a parent, discovering a legacy

Losing a parent, discovering a legacy

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 2, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 1 comment

There may be no more of a life-altering event than losing a parent. I lost my father to divorce when I was five. Now, more than three decades later, my mother is gone from cancer. Rather than losing a person, I feel as if I have lost my homeland — the country...
Need a boost? Three activities to pick you up

Need a boost? Three activities to pick you up

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jan 27, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 2 comments

When life doesn’t go the way you hope, it’s easier to fall apart than to try and hold it all together. A loved one dies. A dream crumbles. Work overwhelms. What do you do? Who do you turn to? When my husband, Dana, and I tied the knot two weeks after my college...
A new year without my mom

A new year without my mom

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jan 19, 2015 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 5 comments

Stepping into the new year without my mom feels like entering a strange and unmapped land. Nothing feels familiar. I am glad for the snow, pleased with the arctic frost that has descended, keeping me inside. As any farmer knows, winter is a time to rest, to re-gather...
Need a boost? Three activities to pick you up

Seeing God’s goodness in the midst of loss

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Dec 29, 2014 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 3 comments

“I would have despaired, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living,” those words, written 3,000 years ago by the Psalmist David, were my prayer through my mom’s six month cancer journey. I prayed God would heal her. Oh,...
Need a boost? Three activities to pick you up

The light that entered our darkness

by Meadow Rue Merrill | Dec 22, 2014 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations | 6 comments

“How do you plan for something you can’t predict?” I asked my husband, Dana, earlier this year when my mom was diagnosed with cancer. “You don’t,” he said. “You take it day by day.” For someone who plans her life around a schedule – when the older kids catch the bus...
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