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The Time for Smartassery is Upon Us
My friends, the time for Humor is upon us. If ever there was a need for laughter it is now. If ever there was a place for courageous irreverence it is here. If ever a world was in need of smartassery, it is our world. Gird your funny bones, armor yourselves with laughter, make powerless bullying, bigotry, and bossybritches bunkum with your good-natured wit and brave hearts. Go out there and make ’em laugh!
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
A Prayer for Peace
Love, may the world know You today.
May all of creation feel the power of You.
May creation feel the joy and healing of Your touch.
May all of creation – sisters and brothers of Your making –
know themselves and each other as made in Your image –
the expressions of Love, with nothing inside or outside
of identity that’s not the pure expression of Love.
Truth, may Your power and strength fill all space,
light the dark places of the world, lift the veil of fear and confusion,
reveal and transform and fill us with courage.
Life, may we feel Your endless energy and boundless beauty,
never-ending, never dying, eternal, whole, complete,
filling all space.
Made in Your likeness, creation only expresses You.
All we can know is what Truth knows.
All we can feel is what Love feels.
All Creation is the expression of Peace.
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Into the Mountains…
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
Books!
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.
Follow-Up: I Found Magic!
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. 🙂
sweet pea in the pines
Daniel
Flora
red bark
seagull with a beak full of lunch
kayakers on Bellingham Bay
cool rocks
There is magic in today…
…let’s get out there and find it! 🙂
Birthing Books
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! 🙂
Isn’t It Great to be Alive?!
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
“Doctor, am I dying?”
“No, you’re living.”
photo of sailboat on Bellingham Bay by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 