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Tagged: perspective

Got Troubles? 5 Ways to Correct Your Perspective
Posted on Wednesday, August 8th, 2018 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 5 ways to correct perspective, disappointments, Jer 29:11, mourning, moving on, overcoming despair, perspective, Phil 4:13, Writing Redemption

By: Carol McClain carol_mcclain Life’s been chaotic for me lately. Too many frustrating (and expensive things) have gone wrong this year. They sent me into a time of mourning–as you can tell from my dearth of blog posts. If it could go wrong–it did. And because it broke down in May, doesn’t mean it’s fixed yet. At …[ read more ]
Kidney Quest: Interlude–The Last Days–Perspective
Posted on Saturday, July 27th, 2013 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: God is in control, Kidney Quest, perspective

Night lights (Photo credit: dlanham ) Our kidney transplant would take place shortly after the results for the MRI and sonogram came in. I returned home. Within a week, I knew everything was a go, and I needed to make my final journey back to Mount Sinai for our last tests scheduled for November 13. My …[ read more ]

Christian–You Are Righteous, But Are You Merciful?

Carol McClain Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. Matt. 5:7 Don Carson, a theologian and co-founder of Gospel Coalition, writes: “Mercy is a loving response prompted by the misery and helplessness of the one on which love is to be showered.” If I only knew then what I know now. I used to be able to point my fingers at others for not learning how to pull themselves out of the gutter. After all, I'd come from a rough and tumble upbringing where alcohol use (we were NOT drug addicts, thank you) was de rigueur. Poor and self-conscious… ...[ full story ]

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