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Longing and Hope in the Shadowlands

March 27th, 2018 | 13 min read

By Jake Meador

In the opening days of Advent 2015 my dad suffered a traumatic brain injury. It was the result of a drug complication. Dad had been having some issues with blood clots and was due to have a surgery to patch the hole in his heart that doctors said was responsible for the clots. On a Saturday early in December he went to work as a line judge at a youth archery competition sponsored by Game and Parks despite the fact that he was having difficulty breathing. The problem didn’t go away and finally on Monday, the day after my parents’ 31st anniversary, mom took him to the hospital.

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Jake Meador

Jake Meador is the editor-in-chief of Mere Orthodoxy. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, Commonweal, First Things, Books & Culture, The Dispatch, National Review, Comment, Christianity Today, and Plough. He lives in his hometown of Lincoln, NE with his wife and four children.