News alert: Christmas is Coming. This should get two different reactions from two different sets of people. I hate Christmas. (Those like me.) Yeah. It’s WONDERFUL. I’d been so jaded for so many years because of Christmas demands. Cynicism is exhausting, so I made some changes. God told us to become like children–yes, He referred …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain:   @carol_mcclain “Two thirds of the praying we do is for that which would give us the greatest possible pleasure to receive. It is a sort of spiritual self-indulgence in which we engage and, as a consequence, is the exact opposite of self-discipline. God knows all this and keeps His children asking…And no matter …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain I’m going to share the least favorite verse of everyone:  “For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry” Habakkuk 2:3 KJV. Who has time for waiting? Who …[ read more ]

Carol McClain    @carol_mcclain     (Be the first to get the blog and my newsletter–sign up today). I got a chance to play with my littlest granddaughter last week. She loves Chuck E. Cheese in the way I love coffee, chocolate and the beach. (Um, and perhaps her Grandpa Neil). To bless her, I did what any grandma (Didi, in …[ read more ]

Carol McClain   @carol_mcclain With childlike faith, I decided I would write a novel. Happily, I told the tale of Cheryl Chandler whose husband left her. To find happiness, she knew only a man could save her–any man, so long as he was hot.   The words flowed onto the page, but I wasn’t so naive as to …[ read more ]