Losing a parent, discovering a legacy
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
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
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...Seeing God’s goodness in the midst of loss
“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,...The light that entered our darkness
“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...Meadow Rue
Wife, mom, writer, friend, sharing God in my everyday life through “Faith Notes.”