by Meadow Rue Merrill | May 30, 2016 | Faith Notes |
Ever claim to believe one thing only to discover that you are in fact practicing a completely contrary conviction? Imagine a person who tells everyone how important it is to eat natural, whole foods while secretly binging on overly processed, chemically altered garbage. Yep, that was me.
Not the food so much, although I admit to an unholy addiction to vanilla ice cream, but the dualism of believing one thing and practicing another. While claiming that my life wholly depends upon the goodness, grace and supremacy of God, I have, simultaneously been acting as if it all depends on me.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jan 4, 2016 | Faith Notes |
“Sometimes in life,” I told my 12-year-old daughter, Lydia, as we packed to move after 18 years in the same house, “You have to tear out your roots and shake up your life to keep moving forward or you will become too comfortable.” As the curtain closes on 2015, I find myself in a place of precipitous change.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Nov 2, 2015 | News |
One of my earliest memories of my mother is of her sitting cross-legged on the floor of our living room surrounded by a massive pile of freshly-washed wool from the sheep she raised on our Oregon farm. In her hands she held two slightly curved wooden paddles with... 
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Oct 26, 2015 | Faith Notes |
Do you know how valuable you are?
As a self-employed writer with a certifiably type-A personality, I often equate my work with my worth. It’s easy to slip from wondering whether my work has value to wondering whether I have value.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Sep 24, 2015 | Faith Notes |
When I was 18, having just completed my first year of college, I found myself without a place to live. My mom, the head of my single-parent household, had rented out our home to go back to school herself. Wendy, a woman in our church, generously invited me to move in...
