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  • Renovating the Heart: Introducing Secondhand Sunsets by Gail Kittleston
    Posted on Monday, March 29th, 2021 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, beauty from ashes, Carol McClain, Dare to Bloom, fiction, Gail Kittleson, growth through suffering, historical fiction, Secondhand Sunsets, spiritual themes, women with grit, women's fiction, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain I’m branching out here in introducing other authors. Gail Kittleson is a gifted writer, teacher, and mentor. She’s recently released a new book: Secondhand Sunsets. I’d love for you to get to know her. Secondhand Sunset Recently, my husband and I decided to re-re-renovate a central portion of our very old house, …[ read more ]

  • Love Life: Live in the Moment
    Posted on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, beauty in a snow storm, Borrowed Lives, Carol McClain, hepatica, little things matter, live in the moment, look at your world, Love Life: Live in the Moment, Matt 6:34, photography, seize the day, two important photography rules, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain “Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient to the day is the evil thereof” (Matt. 6:34). I love photography. Although not a gifted photographer, I love practicing the craft. Recently, two points have been hammered home to create art rather …[ read more ]

  • God Can Create Beauty from Tragedy
    Posted on Monday, March 8th, 2021 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, author Carol McClain, Baskin Creek, beauty from ashes, Beauty from tragedy, Borrowed Lives, carolmcclain.com, Gatlinburg Wildfire 2016, Great Smoky Mountains, healing from pain, Is 61:2, Smoky Mountains, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain “(He has called me) To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified” …[ read more ]

  • How Get Joy Out of Sorrow
    Posted on Friday, February 12th, 2021 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Borrowed Lives, consequences of sin, drug addiction, Elk Lake Publishing, joy, mentoring, Numbers 14:18, Salvation, sin has consequences, Writing Redemption

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain JOY COMES IN THE MORNING BUT UNTIL IT DOES …? Sin’s not all it’s cracked up to be—but after sorrow, comes joy.   Numbers 14:18 and similar scriptures always caused me to stumble. “The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting …[ read more ]

  • Laugh a Little: Heal A Lot
    Posted on Monday, January 18th, 2021

    By: Carol McClain @carol_mcclain I know. It’s been a while since I’ve been on my blog. You know. Life’s so busy–so many social engagements, fairs, family gatherings … So many lies. I’ve more than likely not taken my own medicine. The prescription can be found in Proverbs 17:22: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine:” …[ read more ]

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      Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 In my darkest hours, when my emotional health was at the lowest, I understood I needed Jesus. When we are "poor in spirit," the first Beatitude says, we can find heaven. (Read last week's post. Click here). However, once we have recognized we all sin and cannot redeem ourselves, we still must recognize our poverty of spirit. When we sin, when we're depressed, when our Christian witness is less than inspiring, we need to repent and turn back to Christ. There are probably… ...[ full story ]

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