-
Three Steps to Change Your Life: Lessons from Rahab
@carol_mcclain Is your past unforgivable? Definitely not. Consider Rahab, one of the ancestors of Jesus, mentioned in Matthew 1:5. She was a prostitute. No little girl–or boy–decides as a child, “I’ll be a prostitute.” What forces one into this lifestyle? Drugs? Abuse? Poverty? They say this is the oldest profession, and indeed, we read about prostitutes …[ read more ]
-
What We Obtain Too Cheap, We Esteem Too Lightly
By Carol McClain: @ carol _mcclain Thomas Paine’s writings have been echoing through my flu-addled brain. Thinking of our American world of entitlement, the quote, “What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly,” has especially resonated. As I lay ill in my bed, BBC World videos played on my Neflix account. One especially stirred me. In Nepal, a ten-year-old …[ read more ]