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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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    • To Inherit the World, Are You Prepared to Meet the Cost? Consider the Christmas Story

      Carol McClain Matt. 5:5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." The meek. We think of them as spineless milquetoasts. Unassertive and too timid to achieve anything. Although not mentioned as meek, consider Mary, especially in this Christmas season. As a teenage girl betrothed--essentially married in all but consummation--an angel appears to her. We, of course, know what the angel proclaimed. The only hesitation Mary has is that she is a virgin, so how can she be pregnant? Once she accepts her destiny, the consequences begin. As a pregnant teen, everyone thinks she's been licentious and unfaithful… ...[ full story ]

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