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  • What’s the most important thing in life? Lessons from Alone
    Posted on Tuesday, September 7th, 2021 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Alone, Discovery's Alone, Ecclesiastes 4:9-11, family, hurts of bitterness, need for family, need other, the need for others, we are social, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain Would you like a half a million dollars? I would. Fixated on Discovery’s Alone, I root for my favorite contestants. In one season, a man who had little to do with his family, who ignored his mother’s funeral for the adventure, who thought he needed no one, discovered otherwise. To a finalist–the main motivation in …[ read more ]

  • Your Life As A NASCAR Race
    Posted on Monday, August 31st, 2015 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: chaos, family, love

    The NASCAR Busch Series field at Texas Motor Speedway in April 2007 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) You know your life resembles NASCAR. You race at incredible speeds, near misses, exhilarating moments, crashes, boredom, re-starts. It’s exhausting. Then the race ends and what do you have? That’s been my life lately. Family visited my new home in …[ read more ]

  • I Fell In Love: Sarah
    Posted on Saturday, October 16th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: family, happy birthday, Sarah

         Thirty-four years ago I met the most wonderful person I’ve ever known. She lay on my belly, her beautiful round face staring up at me. Eyes bluer than any robin’s egg held mine. I fell in love with the child who would become my closest friend.     She’s a faithful friend. Once the bond had …[ read more ]

  • Happy Birthday, Vera DeFord Rau
    Posted on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 | Filed under Uncategorized | Tagged: birthday, family

    Picking the defining trait of my mother daunts me. Could it be her generosity? She is, without doubt the most generous person I know. The quintessential example would be the time she took the whole family—22? of us—to Punta Cana for a Club Med vacation. It took place in 1992, and to this day, we …[ read more ]

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      Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 In my darkest hours, when my emotional health was at the lowest, I understood I needed Jesus. When we are "poor in spirit," the first Beatitude says, we can find heaven. (Read last week's post. Click here). However, once we have recognized we all sin and cannot redeem ourselves, we still must recognize our poverty of spirit. When we sin, when we're depressed, when our Christian witness is less than inspiring, we need to repent and turn back to Christ. There are probably… ...[ full story ]

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