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  • Good Grief: The Benefits
    Posted on Monday, October 12th, 2015 | Tagged: Uncategorized

    Grief (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart. 3 Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is …[ read more ]

  • God’s GPS–Not Society’s
    Posted on Monday, October 5th, 2015 | Tagged: compass, gps, Proverbs 14:12, sin, sorrow

    Garmin GPS riderview (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After a fabulous sister-date where we brought my niece to see Santa in July, Janine and I headed back to Malone from the North Pole in Wilmington. Unfortunately, the road home was closed, so we had to rely on my Garmin. It got me lost. My sister took out …[ read more ]

  • No Rewards in Heaven? I’m Bankrupt.
    Posted on Monday, September 28th, 2015 | Tagged: generosity, heavenly rewards, mercy, rewards on earth

    This could’ve been mine! My case is hopeless. I have no reward awaiting me in paradise. None. I’ve spent it all here on earth, but to be honest, I’ve tried to add jewels to my heavenly crown. I’ve worked to make my life the purest gold (or at least silver). And it’s all God’s fault. …[ read more ]

  • The Confession Conundrum: Step 1–Quit Denying
    Posted on Monday, September 21st, 2015 | Tagged: Celebrate Recovery, confession, denial, judgment

    Step 1. Realize I’m not God. I admit that I am powerless to control my tendency to do the wrong thing and that my life is unmanageable. Step 1, Celebrate Recovery. One of the first principles in Celebrate Recovery , a Bible based version of AA, is to quit denying you have a problem. One way you …[ read more ]

  • How To Be Happy: Sew Simple
    Posted on Monday, September 14th, 2015 | Tagged: Ecclesiastes, joy, life

    Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him, for this is his lot” (Ecc. 5:18). I used to love to sew. That is after I …[ 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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