Thank you, Carol, for this
precious reminder.
Hope for the Hopeless
Have you ever fallen so low you know you’ll never find
forgiveness?
I have. Fortunately for you and me, I’m not going to bore
you with the silliness of my self-loathing. Mostly, I understand redemption,
and we don’t need to revisit my tortuous climb back to reality.
I think many people have felt too unworthy to have God’s
love. However, we have good news. Something you already know but need to be
reminded of. Jesus loves you. Faith in him and his sacrifice on the cross
redeems you. It saved me, and cleansed sinners like C.S. Lewis, an erstwhile
atheist; John Bunyan; Simon Peter; King David, and Rahab, to name a few.
Even today, Christ’s love redeems the unredeemable. Here’s
an incident that haunts me from a conversation I had with my husband. Neil, and
I were discussing forgiveness and heaven. In my very self-righteous manner, I
made a statement along the lines that I hoped Hitler never got around to
repenting. He’d ruin my eternity.
Then Neil sucker-punched me with the following truth. “If
Hitler repented, then he’d be in heaven, and you’d never feel this animosity
toward him. It wouldn’t be possible to hate in heaven. God would love Hitler as
much as anyone else.” Neil made the statement more intense. “Maybe you’d love
him too. Heaven can’t hold hatred.”
I couldn’t breathe as this truth overwhelmed me. God’s love
is so great, so inscrutable that he could forgive the unforgiveable. People
like Judas, Hitler, Putin, and the guy who cut you off in traffic and totaled
your car, are loved by our heavenly Father. Had they repented and truly turned
to Christ, they’d be redeemed.
Trust me, no one’s fallen so low that God’s love can’t
redeem.
In my book, Prodigal
Lives, Book 2 of the Treasured Lives
series and the sequel to Borrowed Lives,
Pearl Solomon knows she’s destroyed her life. After years of lost contact with
her sisters and foster mother because of her jealousy, she has nowhere to turn
when her life spirals into the depths of hell.
It’s a novel filled with love, pathos, family, redemption,
and my trademark humor.
Back Cover Blurb
Life keeps piling problems on
Meredith Jaynes. She loses her second foster child—one she was scheduled to
adopt. Then Parker Snow refuses to marry her. With only her goats and artisan
soap to support her, life will get no better.
If she is honest, though, she
still has Crystal. Her funny, happy, loveable toddler makes the sun shine and
reminds her of the never-failing love of God.
Pearl Solomon loves her life
with her grandfather Guy, but every one of her triumphs is overshadowed by her
sisters’ lives. With Mama Meredith, they live a life she envies. Because of her
jealousy, she refuses to contact them.
Years later, life for both
families twist down paths they do not wish to travel. Pearl knows she’s lost
what was most precious in life but has no means of fixing things. Left to her
own devices, she spirals out of control.
Meredith finds it harder to mask
the despair infertility has brought to her life.
Both families believe they must
reconcile themselves to their fates as reality shatters their dreams unless
they dig deep for the promise of love.
Buy now: https://www.amazon.com/Prodigal-Lives-Carol-McClain/dp/164949551X/ref
Bio
Carol McClain is the award-winning author of four novels
dealing with real people facing real problems. She is a consummate encourager,
and no matter what your faith might look like, you will find compassion, humor
and wisdom in her complexly layered, but ultimately readable work.
Aside from writing, she’s a skilled stained-glass artist, a
budding potter and photographer. She lives in East Tennessee with her husband
and her prized goats. Buttercup will be a mommy around the time you read this.
Welcome to the new kid on the block named Mousse or Moose.
You can connect with her at carolmcclain.com.
She also can be found on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/author.Carol.McClain
BookBub at: https://www.bookbub.com/profile/carol-mcclain
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14030286.Carol_McClain
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