I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. – Psalms 121
…The world felt safe here – untouched by war, pestilence, famine – greed and hatred seemed a universe away…
photo of Mount Shuksan in the North Cascades by Karen Molenaar Terrell
When we begin reading a book by an author we’ve never met before, we’re meeting a new friend, aren’t we?
Really old photo (ca 1983) of Amby-kitty taken with a pre-digital, wind-the-film camera.
I want to know who’s going to be the first to change course and lead us to peace.
photo of chatty seagull by Karen Molenaar Terrell
In this morning’s post I invited everyone to join me in finding the magic hidden in the day – and look what I found! – red bark glowing on a tree; a sweet pea peeking out of the pines; I got into conversation with a woman, Flora Lucatero, who is a fitness expert with AdvoCare, and discovered that her dad is good friends with my husband!; and as I was waiting to get my hair done, Daniel, one of the massage therapists, came out to offer me a free hand massage. I said yes. 🙂
…let’s get out there and find it! 🙂
If books are an author’s children, then I am now a grand-author. 🙂 The youngest son published his first book yesterday – a book of poetry – and it’s FANTASTIC! I mean… really FANTASTIC! I knew the son had some talent from the scribblings I’d chanced upon now and then while tidying the house. But when he generously shared his poems with me a couple of days ago, my mouth, literally, fell open! Ahem… and like any proud grandma, I have to share a photo of my new grand-book, right?
And a couple weeks ago I found myself giving birth to another book myself – a Christmas book. In August. Yeah, I know. But our books come when they come (and don’t when they don’t, too), and my Christmas book decided to come in August. And my fellow authors will understand that, once the labor begins, there is no way to stop the book from coming…
Here’s the paperback link (it’s also available as a Kindle book) – http://www.amazon.com/Madcap-Christian-Scientists-Christmas-Book/dp/1500855154/ref=la_B0044P90RQ_1_1_title_0_main?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1409147148&sr=1-1
I love books. We can never have too many. We can never be over-populated with them. More! More! Give me more to write! Give me more to read! 🙂
Think back on the last five years of your life, my friend. Think of all you would have missed if you’d given up on life then – the new friends you never would have known; the sunrises and sunsets you wouldn’t have seen; the lessons you wouldn’t have learned, and the changes you wouldn’t have been able to make; the pictures never painted; songs never sung; all the love and laughter you would have denied yourself… isn’t it great to be alive?!
photo of Mount Shuksan by Karen Molenaar Terrell
“No, you’re living.”
photo of sailboat on Bellingham Bay by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans – John Lennon
I use to think if I could just get through this appointment, and that meeting, and the scheduled event I could get on with living my life – and then it hit me – WHOAH – that stuff IS my life! I know. Duh, right?
photo of the Seattle skyline by Karen Molenaar Terrell
How much of our time should we spend preparing for the worst? And how much time should we allow ourselves just to enjoy the life we have?
photo of beach in Lincoln City, Oregon, by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 