by Meadow Rue Merrill | Jan 19, 2017 | Faith Notes |
On the swearing in of a new president, how should we pray? When I was growing up on an Oregon farm, my hippie mom was one of the only parents I knew at our rural church who’d voted for Jimmy Carter instead of Ronald Reagan. That could have created a split, but we continued sitting in the same pews and singing the same songs as before the divisive 1980 election. Mom didn’t sniff out which businesses had supported which candidate or pull us out of our church-supported school. She got up the same as every other morning, pulled on her rubber boots and went about the work that needed to be done, feeding our sheep and gathering the morning eggs.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 27, 2016 | Faith Notes |
It was time to work. The yard and stone walls surrounding our house needed to be cleared of brush and fallen trees and blankets of dead leaves. The job was huge, far greater than I could do alone, and my husband was at the office. “Come help me clear brush,” I called to my older children, who were in their rooms, out of sight. Instead of hurrying feet, my request was met with silence.
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by Meadow Rue Merrill | Sep 9, 2013 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
Women authors tend to publish their first book a decade after male authors, a friend once told me, because women’s careers are more often interrupted by raising children. True? Who knows. When I became a mother sixteen years ago, I hoped to raise children while...
