“My life flows on in endless song;
Above earth’s lamentation
I hear the sweet though far off hymn
That hails a new creation:
Through all the tumult and the strife
I hear the music ringing;
It finds an echo in my soul—
How can I keep from singing?”
– Robert Lowry
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Photo of sunset in Lincoln City, Oregon, by Karen Molenaar Terrell.
photo of sunrise by Karen Molenaar Terrell
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
(Text excerpted from The Madcap Christian Scientist’s Christmas Book.)
… here’s my contribution today – the joys of life that never fail to put a smile on my face…
photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Where Happiness Lives
Golden lights
And the deepest shadows
Smiling faces illuminated by life
A commodity where I come from
An inherent condition here
Where joy runs rampant
Like that one naked man who
In the presence of a police officer
Streaked across the town in the wake
Of the city-wide party
The officer laughing in mutual enjoyment
Before calling the man by his first name
As a friend and a neighbor
To get his shit together
– Xander Terrell, from Where Happiness Lives
(cover art by Xander Terrell)
photos by Karen Molenaar Terrell
” …keep your minds so filled with Truth and Love, that sin, disease, and death cannot enter them.” – Mary Baker Eddy
Never separated from Life and joy -never isolated. Never unworthy of Good. Never outside Love. You are so loved.
Photo from Sauk Mountain in the North Cascades by Karen Molenaar Terrell.
Follow-up on my last post:
I HAVE had a most perfect day… listened to Sarah MacLachlan singing Winter’s Night on the drive up to Bellingham, went for a really long walk along the bay, met some new friends (both canine and human), heard the last performer of the season singing at the Farmers’ Market, and right now I am sitting here, laughing and watching the Men in Black with the son (Will Smith just sent that superball thingy ping-ponging around the MIB offices.)
And here’s something I realized today – letting myself feel overwhelmed and depressed and hopeless because there is cruelty in the world, and violence, war, and famine – is not in any way going to help people who are struggling with cruelty, violence, war, and famine. There are things I CAN do to help – I can donate time and money; I can use what skills and talents I have to give my support to those struggling with oppression; and I can send out my joy and love into the collective consciousness of Good…
The good you do and embody gives you the only power obtainable. Evil is not power. It is a mockery of strength, which erelong betrays its weakness and falls, never to rise. – Mary Baker Eddy
Beloved children, the world has need of you, —and more as children than as men and women: it needs your innocence, unselfishness, faithful affection, uncontaminated lives. – from Miscellaneous Writings by Mary Baker Eddy
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 