“God is Love. Can we ask him to be more?” – Mary Baker Eddy
It’s not, like, an imposition on God’s time to pray or anything. I mean, how can it be an imposition on Love to be Love or on Truth to be Truth? Just draw your thoughts close to Love, and wrap them all up in Love’s inspiration – et voila! – that’s you – praying!
photo of the beach at Lincoln City, Oregon, by Karen Molenaar Terrell
I love that scene in *Meatballs* where Bill Murray is giving his team a “motivational speech” – if you’ve never seen it, go on youtube and type in “Meatballs It Just Doesn’t Matter” and it should pop up for you.
And it really just DOESN’T matter, does it? 🙂
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Breathe. In this moment you’re safe.
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
When I was working my way through the depression one of the most important things I learned was that I could be happy even when I was sad.
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
You are not a fraud. All that good stuff that people have been saying about you? That’s all true. Everyone else can see who you really are. You’re the only one who can’t see it…
Photo of yellow iris by Karen Molenaar Terrell
The death of Robin Williams has been a hard one for a lot of us to process. We loved this man. We loved his energy, his zany over-the-top take on life – we loved how he made us laugh, and we loved his kindness. And those of us who have experienced depression ourselves feel a kinship with him in his struggles with mental illness.
If you are dealing with depression, I’m here to tell you, my dear friend, that you WILL get through this. And, trust me, when you come out on the other side – and you WILL come out on the other side – you will realize that it was all worth it – all of it. The pain won’t last forever, I promise. Accept it, sit in it, don’t try to fight it, learn what you need to learn from it. The pain won’t leave you where it found you – it’ll push you closer to your own rebirth. Rejoice!
photo of a forest in the Pacific Northwest by Karen Molenaar Terrell
He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings… – Psalms 40:2
Wilderness: Loneliness; doubt; darkness. Spontaneity of thought and idea; the vestibule in which a material sense of things disappears, and spiritual sense unfolds the great facts of existence.
– Mary Baker Eddy
Sorrow has its own reward. It never leaves us where it found us.
– Mary Baker Eddy
It warms the cockles of my heart to know you are in the world…
photo of the beach in Lincoln City, OR, by Karen Molenaar Terrell
You know, I don’t think our opinions and beliefs are so important, really. I think it’s what we DO with our opinions and beliefs that matters. I mean, if our beliefs lead us to bigotry, hatred, condemnation, and general mean-spiritedness – that is not cool. But if our beliefs lead us to kindness, wisdom, forgiveness, and healing – that is WAY cool. Right?
photo of surf and seagulls in Lincoln City, Oregon, taken by Karen Molenaar Terrell
“We should remember that the world is wide; that there are a thousand million different human wills, opinions, ambitions, tastes, and loves; that each person has a different history, constitution, culture, character, from all the rest; that human life is the work, the play, the ceaseless action and reaction upon each other of these different atoms. Then, we should go forth into life with the smallest expectations, but with the largest patience; with a keen relish for and appreciation of everything beautiful, great, and good, but with a temper so genial that the friction of the world shall not wear upon our sensibilities; with an equanimity so settled that no passing breath nor accidental disturbance shall agitate or ruffle it; with a charity broad enough to cover the whole world’s evil, and sweet enough to neutralize what is bitter in it, – determined not to be offended when no wrong is meant, nor even when it is…”
– Mary Baker Eddy
Don’t blame yesterday’s goofs on today’s you.
Yesterday’s over and done, and today you’re starting brand new! 🙂
photo taken in the Seattle Science Center’s Butterfly Exhibit by Karen Molenaar Terrell
I know… duh, right?
photo of sunset on Bellingham Bay by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 