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Tagged: freedom from pain

How To Forgive: A Recipe
Posted on Monday, November 26th, 2018 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, a recipe for forgiveness, forgiveness, freedom from pain, how to forgive someone, Writing Redemption
By: Carol McClain carol_mcclain My good friend Xandra fought with her sister and her sister’s husband. She never shared with me what the issue was, but Xandra quit going to the church they all attended. She cut off communication and refused to let her children associate with the couple. It sounds like a good recipe for …[ read more ]

5 Ways Sin Is Like a Rock
Carol McClain @carol_mcclain The elders in my daughter's church handed out rocks. These weren't pretty, soothing objects like worry rocks or quartz or painted ones with happy messages or water-smoothed pebbles. Each was large enough to hold but oddly shaped and rough. The pastor instructed us to hold the stone throughout the service. Being the obsessively dutiful woman I am, I held this rough, craggy rock. What a pain in the palm! Throughout worship and the lifting of hands, all during the sermon and flipping Bible pages, this unwieldy thing distracted me. I could hold it and could lift it or… ...[ full story ]

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