Skip to main content
Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist

Adventures of the Madcap Christian Scientist

By Karen Molenaar Terrell

Available on
Google Podcasts Logo
Pocket Casts Logo
RadioPublic Logo
Spotify Logo
Currently playing episode

Cosmic Hug

Adventures of the Madcap Christian ScientistFeb 23, 2023

00:00
00:26
The Last Person Alive on the Planet

The Last Person Alive on the Planet

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/03/11/the-last-person-alive-on-the-planet/

The Last Person Alive on the Planet

The last person alive on the planet
wasn’t a dictator, prime minister, or president –
no, it was a cleaning woman
who carefully tidied up the earth,
tucked in the corners, smoothed the wrinkles,
hid the plastic, glitter, and mess
to try to give a good first impression
to whoever lands here next
– Karen Molenaar Terrell

(NASA photo of Earth.)

Mar 13, 202400:22
My Dear Humoristian Hooligans

My Dear Humoristian Hooligans

My dear Humoristian hooligans –

Your mission (should you decide to take it – and, really, what’s the alternative?) is to keep hope alive in yourself so that you can bring it to those lost and weary in a valley of despair. May your irrepressible joy and never-ending good will to all bring light to the desolate, discouraged, and disheartened. May your generosity and open hearts transform the stingy, stodgy, and stuffy. May the bigots, bullies, and busybodies be transformed by your relentless kindness and unfailing patience. May you bring laughter to those in sorry need of a good laugh.

Go out there and work your magic, my friends!

Karen

Mar 01, 202400:48
Be a Tree

Be a Tree

The beauty of an 850-year-old tree.

Feb 14, 202401:23
Kindness Is a Powerful Thing

Kindness Is a Powerful Thing

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/05/31/kindness-is-a-powerful-thing/

Feb 14, 202400:43
Love Is Always Here

Love Is Always Here

We don't need to wait for Love.

We don't need to work for Love.

We don't need to earn Love.

Love is always here and always ours.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/06/16/love-is-always-here/

Feb 14, 202400:33
Ode to the Dads

Ode to the Dads

Father's Day 2023.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/06/18/ode-to-the-dads/

Feb 14, 202400:46
Walking Around in Two Worlds

Walking Around in Two Worlds

After I came home from Australia a part of me was still living there.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/07/28/walking-around-in-two-worlds/

Feb 14, 202400:28
Fellow Travelers

Fellow Travelers

Meeting new friends in the local supermarket.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/07/fellow-travelers/

Feb 14, 202401:56
With Unblinking Eyes

With Unblinking Eyes

It is three in the morning
and the cats sit next to my chair
looking up at me with unblinking eyes
and I know what they are thinking:
“Feed me!”
For a moment they break
and chase each other –
scampering across the floor.
And then they are back in position,
looking up at me with unblinking eyes. https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/08/with-unblinking-eyes/

Feb 14, 202400:21
Love Everywherenow

Love Everywherenow

Messaging my son in Australia.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/09/love-everywherenow/

Feb 14, 202400:43
Am I Done Now?

Am I Done Now?

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/15/am-i-done-now/

Feb 14, 202400:47
A Land of Magic

A Land of Magic

I fell in love with Australia while we were there.

There’s a land of magic
Where magpies sing morning harmonies
And at night stars sparkle serenely
Above silhouettes
Of trees topped with palm fronds
And long-beaked Ibis birds casually browse
In parking lots packed with cars
That have steering wheels on the right

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/16/a-land-of-magic/

Feb 14, 202400:19
Silent Walk

Silent Walk

The last walk I took with my son before I left Australia. I knew it would be a long time before I saw him in the person again.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/08/19/silent-walk/

Feb 14, 202400:30
I'm Siding with Love

I'm Siding with Love

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/10/16/im-siding-with-love/

Feb 13, 202400:32
"And Loss Is Gain:

"And Loss Is Gain:

“O make me glad for every scalding tear,
For hope deferred, ingratitude, disdain!
Wait, and love more for every hate, and fear
No ill, — since God is good, and loss is gain.”
– Mary Baker Eddy, “Mother’s Evening Prayer”

When I learned Andrew and Christina might be moving to, literally, the other side of the world, I went through a period of deep mourning. It felt like someone I loved had died – like another huge loss in a long series of huge losses.

And then I started pulling together all the tools I had been collecting over the years – the insights and healings and epiphanies – and I constructed a bridge for myself over the deep mourning...

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/10/27/and-loss-is-gain/

Feb 13, 202403:32
A Smile from the Cosmos

A Smile from the Cosmos

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/11/15/a-smile-from-the-cosmos/

Feb 13, 202400:26
The Dolphin Ring

The Dolphin Ring

My dolphin ring links me between two generations. It represents the joys and sacrifices of motherhood.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/11/18/dolphin-ring/

Feb 13, 202403:53
We Are One Body

We Are One Body

Head, foot, and elbow
shoulder, hand, and big toe,
right, left, and center,
every race, nationality, and gender –
all part of the same Body,
the same planet, the same universe –
there’s no last and no first,
no best and no worst.
We are One
in One.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/11/25/we-are-one-body/

Feb 13, 202400:23
Note-Perfect

Note-Perfect

This morning I woke up with this verse in my head: “He will perfect that which concerneth thee.” I’m pretty sure I was giving myself a Christian Science treatment in my sleep.

I wake enfolded in divine Love’s arms.
Loved, cherished, protected, safe –
a perfect and complete note in Her song.
Father-Mother Creator unfolds the beauty
and harmony of Her symphony –
note-perfect since before time,
and forever and ever. Amen.
And everything that has to do with me,
and everything that’s concerning to me,
is perfected, evolving fearlessly, flawlessly,
ideally.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/11/27/note-perfect/

Feb 13, 202400:45
You Are Worthy of Healing

You Are Worthy of Healing

You are worthy of love.
You are worthy of healing.
You are God’s beautiful child,
the expression of Her Be-ing.
You don’t need to wait
until something in you changes.
Healing is yours right now –
no need to turn any more pages.

Feb 13, 202400:19
Love's Murmuration

Love's Murmuration

Led by Love to be in the right place at the right time to help.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/12/09/loves-murmuration/

Feb 13, 202402:56
The World Is Calling for Help

The World Is Calling for Help

I’m deep in sleep
and suddenly there’s a voice
right outside my window,
insistent. “Hello? Hellooo?!”

And I wake.
But I’m on the second floor
and, unless someone’s on a ladder,
no one is right outside my window.
Someone was calling for help
in my dreams.

I’m groggy, but waking now.
The world is calling for help.
“Hello? Hellooo?!”

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2023/12/26/the-world-is-calling-for-help/

Feb 13, 202400:31
The Resistance Movement

The Resistance Movement

An episode about resisting hate and fear with love and courage.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/01/05/the-resistance-movement/

Feb 13, 202405:32
Comforts of Home

Comforts of Home

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/01/27/comforts-of-home/

Feb 13, 202400:31
I Am the Boss of My Thoughts

I Am the Boss of My Thoughts

I have a whole universe in my thoughts.
And I decide what happens in there.
I am the boss of me https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/02/04/i-am-the-boss-of-my-thoughts/

Feb 13, 202400:12
I Gather My Memories Around Me

I Gather My Memories Around Me

We created this home together –
my love and I –
and filled it with warmth and joy
and now I sit in our “green room”
and gather my memories
around me like a soft blanket
this is where Dad sat
on his 98th birthday
and reminisced with his old friends
and there is his painting of Rainier
and Mom sang and danced over there,
and lived and died under this roof
that last day,
and over there is where the sons
played the piano and laughed together
and, later, their loves joined us
under this roof and joined in the laughter
while the pandemic made of our home
a safe island and refuge

I feel all the love with me still
Dad’s love and Mom’s
and the sons’ and their partners’
and the love of the man
who helped make this home
with me

I feel the wholeness
and fulness
of my life
and am grateful

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/02/10/i-gather-my-memories-around-me/

Feb 13, 202401:04
Hid Safe in Soul

Hid Safe in Soul

my memories of love aren’t confined
within my brain
aren’t held within the walls of cerebellum,
cerebrum, and brainstem,
tissue and goo,
my memories of love are part of eternity –
hid safe in the collective consciousness
of Soul https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/02/12/hid-safe-in-soul/

Feb 13, 202400:20
The 99.9% of Life

The 99.9% of Life

The last couple of days – in an effort to keep life in perspective – I’ve been making an effort to acknowledge all the 99.9% of life that’s good and beautiful and going on around me all the time – every creature that’s expressing life; every breath I take; every smile exchanged; every pretty little rock I find; the perfume of every flower I sniff in the Valentine’s display at the supermarket; every raindrop sparkling in the sunshine; every purr from my cat; every shared laugh on the boardwalk; every swan and eagle winging above me; every kindness shown me by friends and strangers – and I’m here to tell you that we live in a wondrous and bountifully beautiful world.

https://madcapchristianscientist.com/2024/02/12/the-99-9-of-life/

Feb 13, 202400:52
Age Can't Separate Us from Love
May 21, 202302:17
A Dime for Four Minutes
May 21, 202300:35
Cupcakes, Sunshine, and New Friends
May 21, 202303:25
Trying to Look Perfect
May 21, 202300:22
Using My Highly-Honed Detective Skills
May 21, 202302:02
Haiku Prayers
May 21, 202301:02
The First Word
May 21, 202300:40
Be Done
May 21, 202300:22
Tom Hornbein (November 6, 1930 - May 6, 2023)
May 21, 202301:52
Stepping Into Magic
May 21, 202301:17
A Mother's Prayer
May 21, 202300:34
No Car Day
May 21, 202301:25
Do You Have the Mind of God?
Feb 28, 202303:52
A Long Chain of Smiles
Feb 23, 202301:12
That’s My God
Feb 23, 202300:36
“No Faculty of Mind Is Lost.”
Feb 23, 202300:25
A Holy and Beautiful Thing
Feb 23, 202303:10
Cosmic Hug
Feb 23, 202300:26
I Collected Smiles Today
Feb 23, 202302:28
For I Am Persuaded that…
Feb 23, 202300:26
What New Adventures Await?
Feb 23, 202301:31
Today I Chose Joy
Feb 23, 202301:46