Redeeming Ruth: Everything Life Takes, Love Restores - Hardcover

Merrill, Meadow Rue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1619709074 ISBN 13: 9781619709072

Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers, 2017

Synopsis

"As I'd often told my children, there is nothing of value that may be lost here that will not be given back in heaven. Everything life takes, love restores. Everything. Broken hearts. Broken dreams. No matter how painful. No matter how devastating, God can transform our greatest sorrow into something good. We simply have to keep beating our wings, keep trusting to discover what it will be. In the meantime, he gives us the hope to keep living," Redeeming Ruth.
                

Winner of a Christopher Award for books that inspire and the 2018 Maine Literary Award for memoir, Redeeming Ruth is the inspirational, true story of an abandoned baby, a devastating diagnosis, and the way God loves broken, hurting people through us even though we too may be hurt and broken.

When Meadow met her, Ruth was a sixteen-month-old child that some church friends were hosting from an orphanage in Uganda. She had cerebral palsy and was so weak she couldn't lift her head. Meadow had always felt a call to adopt, but was this what God meant? Part family drama, part travel adventure, and part spiritual memoir, Redeeming Ruth is the heartwarming, against-all-odds story about the most unlikely pairing of a small-town New England family and their adventure in adopting Ruth, an abandoned baby from Uganda. Honest, raw, and illuminating, this book explores what happens when we sacrificially reach out and share God's love with others. While the Merrills realized it would be a tough road, they didn't foresee the challenges and joys that would overwhelm them with hardship, laughter, and a deep and exuberant love--the love of a little girl redeemed.
 
All personal proceeds from this book benefit orphans and people with disabilities in Uganda.


Features:  
A Reader's Guide for small groups or personal reflection.
An eight-page insert with personal photos.
Links on how to get involved.

About this title

About the Author

Award-winning journalist, Meadow Rue Merrill has contributed to the New York Times, Family Circle, The Boston Globe, The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine, The Portland Press Herald, and Down East magazine, where she served as a contributing editor. She was honored with a 2018 Christopher Award and the 2018 Maine Literary Award for memoir. Her Lantern Hill Farm picture-book series releases this fall with The Christmas Cradle. She writes inspirational books for children and adults from a little house in the big woods of midcoast Maine, where she lives with her family and a flock of six troublesome chickens. Connect at meadowrue.com, where you can sign up for her weekly Faith Notes.

From the Inside Flap

"As I'd often told my children, there is nothing of value that may be lost here that will not be given back in heaven. Everything life takes, love restores. Everything. Broken bodies. Broken hearts. Broken dreams. No matter how painful. No matter how devastating, God can transform our greatest sorrow into something good. We simply have to keep beating our wings, keep trusting to discover what it will be. In the meantime, he gives us the hope to keep living," Redeeming Ruth.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

“As I’d often told my children, there is nothing of value that may be lost here that will not be given back in heaven. Everything life takes, love restores. Everything. Broken bodies. Broken hearts. Broken dreams. No matter how painful. No matter how devastating, God can transform our greatest sorrow into something good. We simply have to keep beating our wings, keep trusting to discover what it will be. In the meantime, he gives us the hope to keep living.”

“Theresa pointed to a brown backpack with a torn zipper as I joined her at the table. On front Ruth’s name was printed in large, black letters. ‘I’m saving it for whoever decides to adopt.’ Curious, I pulled out several crumpled summer dresses followed by a rich burgundy gown with a white satin collar and pink rosettes. Beneath were two thickly woven blankets, one red and one white. Who had chosen them? Someone who cared—that was obvious. Someone who wanted Ruth to be warm and well-loved when she arrived among strangers in a foreign land. Someone who hoped she’d be redeemed.”

Edition details

• Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1619709074
• ISBN 13: 9781619709072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240