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  • Your Life Matters
    Posted on Monday, April 8th, 2019 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, cast your seed on the water, Ecclesiastes 11:1, God sees you, good works, Matthew 10:29, obedience, we matter, you make a difference, your life matters

    Carol McClain     @carol_mcclain Have you ever wondered if your life mattered? If you made a difference. I taught for over thirty years. Never was I nominated as teacher of the year. Maybe once someone put my name in for teacher of the month. Without accolades, life went on. Sometimes I overachieved as an instructor. Sometimes I …[ read more ]

  • Forcing God to Your Agenda: How to Pray
    Posted on Monday, April 1st, 2019 | Tagged: Carol McClain, Effective Prayer, Forcing God to Our Agenda, how to pray, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain    @carol_mcclain A little boy I know came down with virulent cancer. I, along with many others, prayed intensely. One day God told me he’d be fine. No. I am crazy, but I didn’t hear an audible voice. A sudden change in my psyche took hold. From that day on, my prayers became more sporadic. …[ read more ]

  • Praying the Perfect Prayer Is Easy
    Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2019 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God intercedes for us, God knows our needs, God's will, how to pray, intercessionary prayer, Perfect Prayer, Pray the perfect prayer, prayer, Romans 8:26

    Carol McClain   @carol_mcclain With childlike faith, I decided I would write a novel about a paramedic. I naively researched the profession and assumed I had the correct information. I wasn’t so naive as to think it was perfect. During this time period, I wondered, too, if I was called to write. I belonged to a floundering critique group …[ read more ]

  • How to See Loveliness: Put on God’s Blinders
    Posted on Monday, March 11th, 2019 | Tagged: blinders, Carol McClain, God's blinders, happiness, horse blinders, mule blinders, Philippians 4:8, Writing Redemption

    by Carol McClain      @carol_mcclain We ate in a quaint restaurant with country decorations. Over our table hung something that looked like a Superwoman’s bra. Knowing this couldn’t be, we asked our waitress. “Mule blinders,” she said. Although my picture doesn’t display mules, they looked something like the above picture. the only way a mule could see, …[ read more ]

  • How God Sees Us
    Posted on Tuesday, March 5th, 2019 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God's love, How God Sees Us, stained glass, Writing Redemption

    by Carol McClain      @carol_mcclain   Fifteen fourth graders crowded my classroom eager to make a stained glass heart. I gulped. Fifteen nine-year-olds. Then I stopped breathing. Fourteen active, normal nine-year-olds and one older, disabled child. How can the teacher instruct him along with all the others? I exhaled and breathed normally. In one day I had to send …[ read more ]

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    • Four Responses to Prayer. Which Fits You?

      arol McClain       @carol_mcclain  My roofer-brother-in-law flew four hundred miles to my house to put on a new roof. As a single mom with only my salary as support, his help was critical. He had one day. Of course, that day threatened rain. The wind already picked up and promised to deliver what the weatherman predicted. This couldn’t happen. I was walking to my car after picking up groceries to feed him, when the story of Jesus calming the wind came to mind (Matthew 8:23-27). Shyly (I was in a public place) I raised my hand to the wind and prayed, “Be still. Please… ...[ full story ]

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