Carol McClain    @carol_mcclain     (Be the first to get the blog and my newsletter–sign up today). I got a chance to play with my littlest granddaughter last week. She loves Chuck E. Cheese in the way I love coffee, chocolate and the beach. (Um, and perhaps her Grandpa Neil). To bless her, I did what any grandma (Didi, in …[ read more ]

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 ]

By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain There was a time when I knew prayer. The Bible describes prayer as wrestling  or striving or fervency or laboring… and lots of other words implying working hard at it. I used to rise before my daughter woke so I could have at least and hour in prayer. I picked up my guitar and …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain I don’t know about you, but somewhere during the many years I’ve been a Christian, I’ve taught myself God is a piggy bank that gives interest. Insert prayer. Wait a day or two, and pop out more than I put in.     Then things don’t go according to plan. I don’t …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain:  @carol_mcclain   I’ve been praying like a fury–for good things, things according to God’s desires. I hang onto the verse: “This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us” 1 John 5:14. Then what is needed, what I prayed for according to God’s will, …[ read more ]