by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 3, 2019 | Faith Notes |
It isn’t hard to find something to be unhappy about these days. The melting ice caps. Racial and economic injustice. The high cost of education and medical care. The opioid epidemic. I suppose Lent is as good a season as any to be miserable as we recognize the grievous condition of the human heart and of the harm our actions have wrought on humanity.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 21, 2014 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
HAVE you ever wondered about the meaning of Easter? Ruth was sixteen-months-old and fresh from Uganda when friends brought her to their little Baptist church in Maine. In the nursery worked Hazel, a petite woman with short brown hair and a quick smile. Unlike many,... ![WHAT CAN’T BE SEEN]()
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jul 30, 2012 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
Early last spring, I mentioned my need to grow things to one of my late daughter’s teachers. It’s that backward pull again, the roots of childhood lacing up my legs like pea vines. I’d felt it for years–this need to plant–but it was...
