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Tagged: creation

Find Beauty. It Hides in Plain Sight
Posted on Thursday, April 9th, 2020 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 10 beauties of nature, Annie Dillard, Beauty hides in plain sight, beauty in nature, Carol McClain, creation, extravagant gestures, how to cope with Covid-19, Job 12: 7-10, Pilgrim on Tinker Creek, Writing Redemption
by: Carol McClain @CAROL_MCCLAIN Let’s face it. With Covid-19, our world has grown small. We’re tempted to despair as family members fall prey to the virus, and friends need to be socially distant. Our lives are, according to Annie Dillard (and I have many a student who will groan as they hear me return to my …[ read more ]
God Created the World for Women: The Proof
Posted on Sunday, April 17th, 2011 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: creation, humor, women
God must be crying over the irony of the patriarchally driven world when the very opening of the Bible shows us the world was created for us–the women. I do not expect you to take this thought in blind faith, so I will demonstrate it exegetically . (Go to the source, and see that I …[ read more ]

Health: Lessons from Alone
@carol_mcclain We take our health for granted. We smoke or drink (or in my case, overdose on chocolate). Maybe we abhor exercise or refuse to get a vaccine because--hey--that's for old people and scaredy-cats. (And I have a right to chose what to do with my body--that's another blog). Two weeks ago, my husband and I had breakthrough cases of COVID (not an excuse for you to skip the vaccination because people get the yuck anyway). Had I not had the vaccine, I'm sure I'd have been in the hospital as I'm still struggling to recover. What did I lose… ...[ full story ]

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