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  • 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 ]

  • Life Is Fragile: Learn to See
    Posted on Saturday, April 11th, 2020 | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Annie Dillard, beauty in nature, Carol McClain, corona virus, gratitude, how to survive living quarantined, learning to see, Life is Fragile:Learn to See, pandemic, Pilgram at Tinker Creek, Psalm 104:24-25, Writing Redemption

    by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN Friends and I hike the Smokies looking for Jack-in-the-Pulpits. Little Annie Margaret is the master. Me? Not so much. Finding them is a matter of seeing. Obvious? Not really. You have to look. You have to be present and be willing to see. Are you near a stream–not on it or adjacent …[ read more ]

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    • 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:" The last chapter of 2020 closed a few weeks ago, but not without promising us more heartache in 2021. Our pandemic hasn’t finished with us, and we will find more grief and hardship for many more months. Now, aren’t you glad you decided to… ...[ full story ]

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