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  • Forcing God to Your Agenda: How to Pray
    Posted on Monday, April 1st, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, Effective Prayer, Forcing God to Our Agenda, how to pray, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain    @carol_mcclain A little boy I know came down with virulent cancer. I, along with many others, prayed intensely. One day God told me he’d be fine. No. I am crazy, but I didn’t hear an audible voice. A sudden change in my psyche took hold. From that day on, my prayers became more sporadic. …[ read more ]

  • Praying the Perfect Prayer Is Easy
    Posted on Monday, March 18th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Carol McClain, God intercedes for us, God knows our needs, God's will, how to pray, intercessionary prayer, Perfect Prayer, Pray the perfect prayer, prayer, Romans 8:26

    Carol McClain   @carol_mcclain With childlike faith, I decided I would write a novel about a paramedic. I naively researched the profession and assumed I had the correct information. I wasn’t so naive as to think it was perfect. During this time period, I wondered, too, if I was called to write. I belonged to a floundering critique group …[ read more ]

  • How to Pray the Perfect Prayer
    Posted on Sunday, October 15th, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, how to pray, John 14: 13, Pray the perfect prayer, Rom 8:26, Writing Redemption

    Carol McClain   @carol_mcclain With childlike faith, I decided I would write a novel. Happily, I told the tale of Cheryl Chandler whose husband left her. To find happiness, she knew only a man could save her–any man, so long as he was hot.   The words flowed onto the page, but I wasn’t so naive as to …[ read more ]

  • Need an Answer to Prayer? Get It In Six Easy Verses
    Posted on Monday, October 2nd, 2017 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, Genesis 32: 22-31, how to get answers from prayer, how to pray, prayer, wrestling in prayer, Writing Redemption

    By Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain Anyone stopping by this website knows I’m an author. And I can create books in two ways: I can dash down my first thoughts and believe they’re great. They are. To me. Not to anyone else who reads them. I can labor, write, rewrite, wrestle with my thoughts and words and phrasings. …[ read more ]

  • Sacred Pathways: How to Observe Your Quiet Times
    Posted on Monday, September 19th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Carol McClain, character counts, how to pray, Matt. 6:6, observe your quiet times, sacred pathways

    “But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you” Matt. 6:6   By: Carol McClain  @carol_mcclain In my early faith and my idealistic church, emphasis was placed on prayer and worship. However, because …[ 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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