Come with me!
Join me here
in this place where I AM.
Just there, beyond
the five senses.
A universe of Love.
A presence called Life.
A power called Truth.
Do you feel it with you?
Do you feel yourself
baptized and immersed
in this presence of Love?
Come! Join me here!
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
I went for a long walk before
I went to the dentist. I needed
to escape from my head for a bit –
to let my thoughts soar
and let Life pour
all its Good into me.
I needed to take
a break
from the pain.
So I walked out of my head
and into the Consciousness
of Good surrounding
me, abounding
all around me.
Swans and ducks sat in a green
field by an old barn. The air
smelled of rain and life.
Children’s toys and bikes
sat in a driveway,
waiting to play.
Dogs wagged their tails
at me from inside their yard.
And I felt no pain at all while
I was there
outside my head.
So I stayed outside my head
when I went to the dentist.
And the dentist said:
“Healthy teeth. Long roots.
These aren’t going to fall
down during a storm.”
And I felt Love with us
as he filled in my long roots
and the crown on my tooth
and sent me home,
feeling no pain.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
(Photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell.)
the playful Presence
and the protecting Power
peaceful Assurance
All is well and All
is well and All is well and
All is well and All
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
I’m praying, but I can’t seem to find God
in my thoughts. I can’t hear Her voice.
It’s 3:00 in the morning when I head
downstairs to read. I sit on the couch
and pull a blanket around me and open
my book. Timid black cat jumps onto
the couch and slowly moves closer to me
until I pull him next to me and he lays
down, belly-up, trusting me, expecting
kindness, and his trust fills me with joy.
And I realize that this is God talking to me.
I pet his belly and click on Facebook’s
messenger on my phone and see
new messages waiting for me.
I open them and find words of love
and comfort and caring and connection
in the voices of my friends.
And I know that this is God talking to me.
The night is still, but I can feel it gently
pulsing with Life and Love. And I am
enveloped in the joy of be-ing.
This is God talking to me.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
Yes, our country needs to unite – but not behind the KKK, the Nazis, or anyone who uses hate groups as a tool.
And yes, Love is the answer. But Love shouldn’t be confused with that fear-based thing where we stop ourselves from doing and saying what we know needs to be done and said because we’re afraid of “making waves” or we’re afraid of confrontation. Sometimes evil needs to be confronted and called out. We need to love. We don’t need to appease. We don’t need to placate, mollify, or pacify. If someone’s feelings are hurt because we happen to disagree with them – that shouldn’t stop us from saying and doing what we know is right. We shouldn’t let ourselves be controlled by others like that. That’s not Love. That’s being a scaredy cat.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
“Neither sympathy nor society should ever tempt us to cherish error in any form, and certainly we should not be error’s advocate…Attempts to conciliate society and so gain dominion over mankind, arise from worldly weakness….If you venture upon the quiet surface of error and are in sympathy with error, what is there to disturb the waters? What is there to strip off error’s disguise?”
– Mary Baker Eddy
(Originally published in August 2017.)
You don’t have to bring the past
into this moment.
You don’t have to bring the pain
with you as you move forward.
Ask yourself:
Is this helpful?
Is this useful?
Is this relevant?
Is there a purpose to this?
If the answer is “no” –
then move on.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
“She could not fix the past and she couldn’t stay trapped there.”
― Janis Wildy, The English Bookshop
thinking they are lost
we try to preach them “the way”
maybe we’re the lost
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
January 13, 2023
There’s all kinds of magic happening today! I drove up the North Cascades Highway to Concrete to run an errand (and give myself an adventure). As I was pulling into Concrete who should I see but John “Wizard” Bromet the Peace Man! Whoah!! I pulled over and grabbed my “PEACE JUSTICE KINDNESS “ sign out of the back of my car and joined him at the bus stop. We laughed and talked and sang together for a few minutes and then took a quick selfie. It was totally magic to run into John up there!
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
(Here’s a video of John and I singing together a few years ago.)
Claim this moment.
And the next one.
And the next.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
(Cellphone photo of Lake Samish sunrise. See the reflection of the moon? Photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell.)
Principle is my foundation.
Mind is my guide.
Soul is my music.
Life is my friend
in whom I abide.
Truth is my protector.
Love is my mother.
Spirit is my reality.
I need no other.
-Karen Molenaar Terrell
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 