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  • Joy: How do you find it when your world falls apart?
    Posted on Tuesday, December 13th, 2022 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, Borrowed Lives, Carol McClain, Ecclesiastes 1:9, How to find joy, Isaiah 35:1, joy, Philippians 4:8, Romans, Romans 8, romans 8: 35-39, sorrow, sorrow at Christmas, Writing Redemption

    @carol_mcclain The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, And the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. (Is. 35:1) This last Sunday, Neil and I lit the third Advent candle–the rose one. Joy. Of all things with the recent loss of my mother (not to mention my usual litany of sorrowful things–I …[ read more ]

  • 5 Ways Sin Is Like a Rock
    Posted on Monday, May 20th, 2019 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: @carol_mcclain, 5 ways sin is like a rock, Carol McClain, repentance, sin, sin like a rock, sorrow, Writing Redemption

    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 …[ read more ]

  • God’s GPS–Not Society’s
    Posted on Monday, October 5th, 2015 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: compass, gps, Proverbs 14:12, sin, sorrow

    Garmin GPS riderview (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) After a fabulous sister-date where we brought my niece to see Santa in July, Janine and I headed back to Malone from the North Pole in Wilmington. Unfortunately, the road home was closed, so we had to rely on my Garmin. It got me lost. My sister took out …[ read more ]

  • Mourning: Better Than Joy: Eccl. 7: 2-4
    Posted on Thursday, December 13th, 2012 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Ecclesiastes 7: 2, sorrow

    English: The Bible (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) When love came knocking shortly after I got saved, I worried I would make the same mistakes I made when I had married. That relationship proved damaging to who I was as a human, so I prayed that God would shut every door He needed if He did not …[ read more ]

  • Ecclesiastes 1:18–Knowledge=Sorrow
    Posted on Thursday, October 11th, 2012 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Ecclesiastes 1:18, Grief, knowledge, sorrow

        Much learning earns you much trouble. The more you know, the more you hurt. Eccl 1:18 This verse confused me. I love knowledge. I believed you can never have too much. But then, I discovered, the hard way, the more you know, the more you realize you don’t know. Then you find yourself …[ 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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