A Song for You :)

Here is my rendition of “The Water Is Wide” (with lyrics by Fenella Bennetts, and the wonderful Eva Cassidy’s accompaniment):

http://www.singsnap.com/karaoke/watchandlisten/play/c260e4be8

 

Healing feels like…

Healing feels like…

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(photos and collage by Karen Molenaar Terrell)

In Memorium

…if a friend be with us, why need we memorials of that friend?
Mary Baker Eddy

memorial

Where Thoughts Roam Free

Heaven is where thoughts and words roam free…

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– photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

        The time for thinkers has come. Truth, independent of doctrines and time-honored systems, knocks at the portal of humanity.
– Mary Baker Eddy

The Rainbow is Enough

Are we really grateful for the good already received? Then we shall avail ourselves of the blessings we have, and thus be fitted to receive more.
– Mary Baker Eddy

Who needs a pot of gold? The rainbow is enough. 🙂

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photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell

Finally! The Students are Here!

(Originally posted on the ramblingschoolmarm.wordpress.com)

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Letting Go

Okay. So this is the part of motherhood I never thought about when I was holding my babies in my arms – the part where they are all grown-up and need to leave to start their own lives, and you know they have to do this, and you know it’s right and you know it will be a good thing for them, but it just hurts so awfully much…

Karen Molenaar Terrell's avatarAdventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist

Human affection is not poured forth vainly, even though it meet no return. Love enriches the nature, enlarging, purifying, and elevating it. The wintry blasts of earth may uproot the flowers of affection, and scatter them to the winds; but this severance of fleshly ties serves to unite thought more closely to God, for Love supports the struggling heart until it ceases to sigh over the world and begins to unfold its wings for heaven. – Mary Baker Eddy

I thank my God upon every remembrance of you… – Philippians 1:3

There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it. – Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn-Dixie

Okay. So this is the part of motherhood I never thought about when I was holding my babies in my arms – the part where they are all grown-up and need to leave to…

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