by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jul 27, 2015 | Faith Notes |
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...
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jul 13, 2015 | News |
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...
by Meadow Rue Merrill | May 1, 2015 | Faith Notes |
My husband Dana swears it wasn’t his fault. We were squeezed in the tiny galley of our kitchen. As I tried to move around him, my baby toe caught the underside of his shoe, partly ripping off my nail. “Why did you do that?” I looked at him aghast as my toe throbbed...
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Sep 8, 2014 | Faith Notes |
“Why does God let it hurt so much?” my 4-year-old son cried in the dark , waking up with a sore throat and fever. “I don’t know, but do you want me to pray with you?” I asked, lying in bed beside him. It was all I could think to do after having already offered him...