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
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans – John Lennon
I use to think if I could just get through this appointment, and that meeting, and the scheduled event I could get on with living my life – and then it hit me – WHOAH – that stuff IS my life! I know. Duh, right?
photo of the Seattle skyline by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Those times when I’ve encountered and connected with expressions of Life on their own turf, beach, and limb have been magic for me – as cool as meeting and communing with aliens from another planet…
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
photo by Karen Molenaar Terrell
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist 