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  • The Pain of Life Brings Beauty
    Posted on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2023 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Cor 1:3-5, beauty from ashes, beauty from pain, Carol McClain, how we're like butterflies, Isaiah 61: 1-3, James 2: 1-4, the pain of life brings beauty, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain While hiking, my friend and I discovered these beautiful blue morpho swallowtails. Rarely do they hold still long enough for me to get beautiful pictures, but these three riveted themselves on their dining. That’s where the beauty ends. Nine times out of ten, what are these lovely butterflies–formerly ugly caterpillars who squish green …[ read more ]

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    • What to you gain by being meek?

      Carol McClain Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. (Matt. 5: 5) At one time, I considered myself meek. I think I equated my yielding, ready-to-give-in nature as meek. As of late, I've seen all the places I've been arrogant: how I knew best how to write or edit or eat or exercise. (We won't get into politics). Wishy-washy isn't meek. As a matter of fact, two of the greatest men in the Bible are the only two who to whom this trait had been given. The first was Moses. Yep. You read that right. The man who confronted… ...[ full story ]

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