by Carol McClain     @carol_mcclain I’d heard being stranded in a cave could cause blindness. Mostly it’s true for infants, but not for adults. Darkness impairs everyone’s vision. For example, miners develop jerky eye movements because they spend so much time in dark spaces. This concept of the damage living in the dark causes brings to mind a study by …[ read more ]

by Carol McClain    @carol_mcclain Have you ever toured a cave? Last year, my family and I explored the Lost Sea in Speedwell, Tennessee. Lights strung along the path led us over ledges, around stalagmites, past underground streams. Deep into the cavern, the tour did what all cave tours do. They turned off the lights. Darkness so …[ read more ]

By Carol McClain:    @carol_mcclain In 1937 King Edward VIII of England gave up his title and power and glory for love. He loved a sinner–a married American  in the process of divorce. Wallis Simpson sympathized with the Nazis. Edward loved her, so he sacrificed everything for her. For an American, this love which created a constitutional crisis in England, speaks of a fairy …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain           carol_mcclain “So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God” Romans 10:17.   In everything, the Bible supplies us direction. Hardly a post goes by on this blog where I don’t refer to Scripture. I know from experience, my hope and my peace come from the word of God. However, the question you …[ read more ]

By: Carol McClain          carol_mcclain “You are all together beautiful, my love, there is no flaw in you” Song 4:7.   “I wouldn’t undo anything I did because it made me what I am today.” You’ve heard this, haven’t you? I certainly have and it drives me crazy. I’d undo tons of things I did and be …[ read more ]