Trusting God When Life Hurts, Act IV: Looking Back
As if being mistaken for a boy and wearing my brother’s hand-me-downs wasn’t awkward enough, growing up I was cross-eyed and wore glasses. When kids called me “four eyes,” their words added one more wound to my already hurting heart. At night, curling up in bed on our...
Trusting God when life hurts, Act II: Looking up
As a young child growing up with a single mom I had my share of hurts—the insecurity that came from having an uninvolved father, the feeling of not fitting in with my peers at school, the frequent moves that made me an everlasting outsider. In many ways, this early...
FINDING HEALING IN HEARTBREAK
God often allows us to go through heartbreaking circumstances we don’t understand. The death of a child. The loss of a job. An unexpected pregnancy. Three challenges my own family experienced in the last three years. Sometimes we discover a hidden reason that...BROKEN
June 25, 2012 “I can fix anything but a broken heart,” my grandfather, a salesman by trade and tinkerer by talent, often told my mother when she was growing up in West Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. I remember him as tall, smiling, and full of...Meadow Rue
Wife, mom, writer, friend, sharing God in my everyday life through “Faith Notes.”