Happy Labor Day! May your employer appreciate your talents and skills. May you be treated with respect, and have work that’s meaningful. May you be recognized as a valuable resource. May your employer be grateful for you. You may be a public servant, but you are not a public slave. Amen.
photo of the Seattle skyline by Karen Molenaar Terrell
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
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.
photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell and Scott Terrell
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.
…let’s get out there and find it! 🙂
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
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 