By Carol McClain: @    carol     _mcclain Tongue facts: It’s three inches long. Every 10-14 days your taste buds (up to 10K of them) die off and are replaced. God designed taste buds to keep us alive. Sour or bitter may indicate poison. Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint–so don’t lick your crime scene. Your tongue muscles are …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain        carol_mcclain Have you ever prayed and prayed and prayed and nothing ever happened? If you’ve been a Christian for any length of time, I don’t have to guess at the answer. Unfortunately, to us mortals with mortal desires, sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes, though, God’s working behind the scenes. I have two …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain       carol_mcclain For the Fourth of July, Nike apparel was going to roll out a new shoe featuring the Betsy Ross flag. Kaepernick, a well-known football star and social activist protested. The flag symbolised slavery and a despicable time of our history. Nike withdrew the design. On the outside, his protest looked good. Our …[ read more ]

Carol McClain  carol_mcclain On Feb. 1974, the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst. Two months later, authorities caught her robbing the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco with her captors. How did a young woman with no history of protests or rebellion, one who came from an affluent, conservative family suddenly become a bank robber?   A …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain        carol_mcclain My friend bought a vacation home on a beautiful lake. For years she’d marvel about her good fortune. Then time passed. It became a small, unremarkable house on a cul-de-sac of million dollar homes. She lost the wonder. This year, though, she sat on her dock. Fireworks exploded down the cove. The …[ read more ]