Get Blog Post Updates
Sign up to receive blog posts automatically emailed straight to your inbox.

Tagged: stress

Relieve Holiday Stress in God’s Eden
Posted on Monday, December 5th, 2016 | Filed under Blog | Tagged: Big South Fork, Carol McClain, character counts, Christmas stress reliever, garden of eden, Grand Gap, relieve holiday stress, stress

A distant view of Angel Falls before we walked out on the rocks Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle …[ read more ]

How Do You Find Heaven?

Carol McClain Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 In my darkest hours, when my emotional health was at the lowest, I understood I needed Jesus. When we are "poor in spirit," the first Beatitude says, we can find heaven. (Read last week's post. Click here). However, once we have recognized we all sin and cannot redeem ourselves, we still must recognize our poverty of spirit. When we sin, when we're depressed, when our Christian witness is less than inspiring, we need to repent and turn back to Christ. There are probably… ...[ full story ]

Carol McClain