by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jun 17, 2017 | Faith Notes |
As we continue to explore motherhood, loss and redemption, this week’s Faith Notes guest post comes from Janna Lynas.:
From the beginning, my heart opened. Then just as quickly, it closed. Once my husband, our 6-year-old adopted son and I left his land of familiar smells and people, textures and sounds, our son closed off his heart. Mine soon followed. It happened so fast, I was caught off guard. I didn’t even realize that I was grieving until months later. I was just trying to survive, and so was he.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 17, 2016 | Faith Notes |
Here is for the courageous ones. For those who say, “yes,” despite the personal cost. For those with the outrageous audacity to love those from whom they have nothing to gain. Here is for the California preacher’s wife, who at the comfortable age of 52, said yes to a dying missionary’s desperate request, “I’m giving you the orphanage.”
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Nov 18, 2013 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
When I first considered adoption, I wondered, “Could I love someone else’s child the way I love my own?” Then we met Ruth, who came to Maine for physical therapy. ... ![BIRTH IN MULAGO HOSPITAL]()
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jan 14, 2013 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
“She was born in Mulago Hospital and abandoned at birth.” From the moment I heard those words about Ruth, the floppy-limbed, dark skinned, bright eyed sixteen-month-old baby who would become my daughter, I’d drawn a mental picture of the place... ![BIRTH IN MULAGO HOSPITAL]()
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jun 29, 2012 | Book Reviews, Faith Notes |
June 28th, 2012 How far would you to go save the life of a child? That was the question one Northern California couple, Levi and Jessie Benkert, had to answer in the winter of 2009 when a pastor invited Levi on a mission trip to help build an orphanage in...
