You’re safe.

You’re safe.


There will be magic today. You deserve whatever you can find.

Snowgeese and trumpeter swans in a field in Bow, Washington. (photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell)
Several weeks ago a fellow member at church asked me if I might combine quotes from Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures with some of my photos for a display at our local Reading Room. I spent the afternoon working on this project – and it was a total blast!
Here are the photos and quotes I put together for the display (all quotes are from Science and Health, and all the photos – except for NASA’s photo of the stars – are by yours truly):
Happy solstice, everyone!

Sunrise in Bow, Washington (photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell)
Home is the dearest spot on earth, and it should be the centre, though not the boundary, of the affections. – Mary Baker Eddy

photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
“Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.” – Matthew 6

Trumpeter swan in front of Mount Baker. (Photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell)
T’was Two Weeks Afore Christmas
T’was two weeks afore Christmas and all through Eff Bee
not a creature was stirring – not a she, he, or me
We were prostrate and spent from the holiday bustle
not a twitch could be seen from the teeniest muscle.
We lay all unblinking in our respective beds
while visions of gift-wrapping swirled through our heads
And clad in our jammies and our way cool madcaps
we had the vague hopeful hope our bodies would take naps.
Holiday jangles and jingles pinged through our brains –
Presley, Crosby, and Mathis taking us down memory lanes –
and would we remember every member to be gifted?
We mentally went through our lists, hoping none were omitted.
There were homes to be decorated and cards to be sent,
parties, caroling, and cookie-making, and we hadn’t made a dent.
But with a collective sigh we remembered there and then
that it’s really about good will to all creatures, women, and men.
And so our thoughts finally settled and our bodies relaxed
as we thought of those we love and a world festooned in pax.
With our hearts wrapped in kindness and the world as our ‘hood
We’re all brethren and sistren – and verily, it’s all good!
– Karen Molenaar Terrell, from The Madcap Christian Scientist’s Christmas Book)