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Tagged: botanical gardens

What Is Perfection? I’ll Show you: Photo Expose
Posted on Monday, May 16th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | 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 ]

Your Past Can Be Forgiven: Rahab
@carol_mcclain Is your past unforgiveable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No one chooses this lifestyle. In ancient Israel, women found few avenues of employment. If unmarried or widowed, they very often had to turn to prostitution in order to survive. Who wants to have non-stop sex with strangers? According to the Shalvi/Hyman Encyclopedia of Jewish Women: [caption id="attachment_2044" align="alignleft" width="200"] No one's fallen so low that God can't redeem.[/caption] "Rahab, who begins as triply marginalized—Canaanite, woman, and prostitute—moves to the center as bearer of a divine message… ...[ full story ]

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