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  • How To Be God’s Friend
    Posted on Monday, June 13th, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, faith/works, how to be a friend of God, marriage, perfectionism

    13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. John 15:13-14 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Sometimes I think I should have been a lawyer, I can find the loophole in anything. As a recovering perfectionist, the last part of John 15:14 drove …[ read more ]

  • 30 Days to Less Guilt
    Posted on Monday, June 6th, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character, character counts, guilt, neural pathways, perfectionism, renewing your mind., transforming your mind

    Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain The flip side of perfectionism is guilt. I have a quarter. On the front …[ read more ]

  • Want To Acheive God’s Perfect Will? Make Mistakes
    Posted on Monday, May 30th, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, famous people who failed, mistakes, perfectionism, stained glass

    Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is–his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:2 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain I love stained glass. I also adore anything complex. Simple bores me, and if …[ read more ]

  • Choose Your Pharisee: So Many Judges, So Little Success
    Posted on Monday, May 23rd, 2016 | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, Mt. 5:20, perfectionism, Pharisees, righteousness

    For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven. Matt. 5:20 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain They surround us. They live among us and infect us with our inferiority. In the faculty room, the churches, the government, social groups, …[ read more ]

  • What Is Perfection? I’ll Show you: Photo Expose
    Posted on Monday, May 16th, 2016 | Tagged: Adirondack Mountains, botanical gardens, Carol McClain, character counts, Great Smoky Mountains, Mosiaculture, perfection, wild flowers

    Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. Luke 12:27 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain One of my favorite spots in the Montreal Botanical Gardens . If you ever want to see perfection, go there–especially from now until early summer. …[ 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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