Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but the (person) who fears the Lord is to be praised. Proverbs 31:30   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain I sliced into a strawberry. The red fruit was large and perfectly formed. It lay in a container with other berries identical to it. My mouth watered with the promise of …[ read more ]

 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;  not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. Eph. 2:8-9 By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Newly divorced with a young child, I started life over again in Malone, a tiny town in Northern New York. Here I met some lovely …[ read more ]

There is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man. Mark 7:15   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Neil, bless his heart, loves potatoes. Yuck. No meal is complete without the spuds. Have I said yuck, yet? Every …[ read more ]

  All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Is. 64:6   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain For most of my Christian life, I belong to a lively church that …[ read more ]

If the whole body were an eye, where would the hearing be? If the whole were hearing, where would the sense of smell be? But now God has placed the members, each one of them, in the body, just as He desired.  If they were all one member, where would the body be? 1 Cor. 12: 17-19 Lin is …[ read more ]