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  • Joy: How do you find it when your world falls apart?
    Posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Borrowed Lives, Carol McClain, Ecclesiastes 1:9, How to find joy, Isaiah 35:1, joy, Philippians 4:8, Romans, Romans 8, romans 8: 35-39, sorrow, sorrow at Christmas, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. (Is. 35:1) This last Sunday, Neil and I lit the third Advent candle–the rose one. Joy. Of all things with the recent loss of my mother (not to mention my usual litany of sorrowful things–I …[ read more ]

  • Five Ways Comparisons Hurt You
    Posted on Sunday, October 9th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Corinthians 10:12, A New York Yankee on Stinking Creek, Carol McClain, comparisons, don't compare, Gal. 6: 4, how comparisons hurt you, John 3:16, Micah 6:8, Ps 139:14, Writing Redemption, you are of value, you are wonderfully made

    @carol_mcclain “Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who are commending themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another and compare themselves with one another, they are without understanding” 2 Cor. 10:12. My husband and I go to craft show (for me, mostly to recoup some of the money …[ read more ]

  • What do comparisons do?
    Posted on Monday, September 5th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Corinthians 10:12, author Carol McClain, Carol McClain, comparisons, comparisons hurt, Proverbs 31, proverbs 31:10-31, Writing Redemption

    carol_mcclain I’m sure glad Lemuel’s mother isn’t my mother-in-law. She asked her son this question in Proverbs 31 verse 10: Who can find a virtuous wife? I’ll rephrase for the purposes of this blog–are you a virtuous wife? Wait-wait. Here’s the answer. No one Don’t believe me. Take this quiz and see how you match up …[ read more ]

  • You Can Overcome Suffering: Bathsheba
    Posted on Monday, August 22nd, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 2 Samuel 11, Bathsheba, Carol McClain, Jewish Women's Archive, Matthew 1: 6, Romans 8: 37, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain Little is known for certain about Bathsheba  (the fourth woman mentioned in Jesus’s genealogy)and her relationship with King David. I highly recommend reading the Jewish Women’s Archive for a Jewish perspective on this complicated woman. For certain, we know: She was beautiful (1 Sam. 11:2) Her father and husband were elite members of David’s vanguard. (2 …[ read more ]

  • God Loves the Outcast: Ruth
    Posted on Sunday, August 14th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Ancestry, Bible book of Ruth, Carol McClain, character, God loves the outcast, jewsforjesus.org, Ruth, trials, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain Recently I moved from northern New York, from a rural community closer to Montreal than any US city. Tennessee offered a vastly different world, and more than the differences I found here, I was a newcomer. Friend groups had been established, and being an introvert, working my way into them proved difficult. I was a …[ read more ]

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      “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.” ― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life It's the new year, and of course, you've made resolutions. Do you want to exercise more? Cook healthy meals? Write a book? Have you resolved that this is the year you'd accomplish this? Nearly all of us have already broken our resolves. Why? Because we do what we want to do. Wait, our resolves are our desire, or so we think. Not if you're not doing… ...[ full story ]

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