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  • Sin Is Like a Rock
    Posted on Monday, June 29th, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, forgiveness, hard hearts, Matt. 19:26, progress, repentance, sin, Sin is like a rock, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain       @carol_mcclain The elders in my daughter’s church handed out rocks. These weren’t pretty, soothing objects like worry rocks or quartz or painted ones with happy messages or water-smoothed pebbles. Each was large enough to hold but oddly shaped and rough. The pastor instructed us to hold the stone throughout the service. Being the obsessively …[ read more ]

  • Scratching the Owl’s Head
    Posted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, climbing mountains, friendship, hiking, irony, natural world, Nature, NY, Owls Head, poetry, the hamlet of Owls Head NY, transience of life, writing, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN   My friend Linda Sprague found a few old poems of mine published in Foothills Ink and sent them to me. I’m going to take a break from my usual musings and share some never before shared work. I dedicate this post to Linda Sauther, Ellen Mainville, Flossy Powell, and Zoe Steenberge. …[ read more ]

  • Be Still: Be Wise
    Posted on Saturday, June 13th, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, all lives matter, Black Lives Matter, Carol McClain, COVID-19, Isaiah 30:15, peace, police brutality, police kindness, repent, slow down, social unrest, statistics, tranquility, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN There’s a quirk I have. I must be fast. As a child, when I took a test, I timed it so I wasn’t the  first finished, and I wasn’t last, but I had to hand in my paper quickly. My handwriting is a scrawl because I have to get my thoughts down. …[ read more ]

  • How to Enjoy Your Circumstances: One Easy Way
    Posted on Monday, May 4th, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, Carol McClain, COVID-19, how to enjoy your circumstances, How to not worry, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, self-consciousness separates us from God, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matt. 6:34) We’re living in a scary time. COVID-19 rears its head, and we don’t know if we’re next in line to succumb to it. The pandemic aside, no one guarantees our …[ read more ]

  • Blindly Believing: Fixed Notions
    Posted on Monday, April 20th, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, Carol McClain, coronavirus, COVID-19, God's glory, God's love, God's promises, John 9: 1-12, Luke 13:4, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, strange insect behavior, The Fixed, the tower of Siloam, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN We, like the insect world of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, have fixed ideas. Whether they help us or not, we learned certain things, believe them and follow them blindly. It makes us not much better than bugs. Here’re some of the crazy things insects do: The FIXED notions of Chapter 4: “The Fixed.” …[ read more ]

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      @carol_mcclain As stated in last week's blog dealing with denial (click here to read), grieving can be for any traumatic issue. In my life, I'm processing grief over multiple losses and problems. However, if you have experienced sexual abuse, domestic turmoil, divorce, racial injustice--well, look at the news headlines--you can plummet into mourning. What bears repeating is: 1. Grief does not follow a timeline. You may be struggling for a year. You may find new joy in a month. Neither is wrong. 2. The five stages of grief will be cyclical. You may have reached acceptance and suddenly cycled back… ...[ full story ]

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