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Ordinary but Impossible

Posted on November 3, 2025November 3, 2025 by Pam

This is the season of trying our best. Today I had help digging out a few layers in my garage to find the snow tires. Now I cannot get my car into that space until the bi-annual shuffle completes. It is an ordinary garage but impossibly narrow for one car. I’m trying my best. Next I’ll gauge if the four boxes marked Christmas should remain in the house (more clutter) or be sorted when I bring my other set of tires home tomorrow. Just an ordinary day. I will not put up the tree this early but it would solve more than one challenge. What is best? I prefer the tires in front of Christmas decor because spring will arrive before next Christmas. One solution would be a two-car garage but today that is impossible but on my to-do list. I’m trying my best. These are very infinitesimal issues. I have a long list of friends with cancer and am praying for healing. It is possible. Doctors try to provide statistics but each person is their own case. Early prognosis is preferred and that is possible. Please visit your doctor as often as needed. I have a new friend whose buddy disclosed that said friend has not been to a doctor in 15 years. Why? There is no science that supports not checking on our health. What is behind an accountant making this decision? It is possible that he is very healthy but we are until we’re not. I think we should try our best; pray like our health is up to God and do everything we can each day. When friends are ill we should try our best to serve them. Loss keeps happening but God is still sovereign. Getting the extras done in November and December is my priority this year since I’ve been other places for the last couple of years. I’m not sure what is in these four boxes that will make the ‘cut’ when I repack Christmas memories. They are displacing my tires and the more we have the more work we create. I do know that shuffling each day to attend to the ordinary care of impossibly fabulous friends has eternal meaning compared to tires and decor. Chose well so that the seeming impossible has a chance to be ordinary.

"Thoughts from a genuinely evaluative mind."

Pam writes so that must make her a writer. Recently retired, she can now fill days with family, friends, missions, writing, creating, and showing up for whomever needs her. Pam loves the Lord and people. The Bible is God’s love letter to us (and who does not need more love) so she studies and writes some more.

Pam lives in the Pacific Northwest but was home-grown in Southern California. She attended San Jose Bible College and finished a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry at UCLA. She became a teacher, then a Research and Development Chemist, then she built two successful real estate businesses in two states. Pam also pursued study at Fuller Theological Seminary and just completed six months serving in missions abroad.

Pam has two amazing children, married to two precious in-laws, and five sweet grandchildren. Pam is a gifted connector and communicator and the Northwest has the perfect climate for staying inside and writing – or baking! She has been writing since a wee one and is currently converting many years of blogging, by topic, into ten books. The first is a collection from 2011 titled, Beautiful Enough. The second is a yearly day-timer titled, Weekly Planner - Lessons in Life, Glory, and Grace. Number three is in progress with the working title, Christmas Today.

Ten facts about Pam in no particular order:

  1. On the team that developed an insulation for the Alaskan oil pipeline.
  2. Loves looking at homes, decorating, and has flipped five homes.
  3. Likes being tall.
  4. Films have helped define her vocabulary.
  5. Comes from Colorado tenement farmers with history traced to Wales.
  6. Was lost but now is found.
  7. Baking makes her happy – as does eating sweets with coffee, of course.
  8. She thinks mission work is the most important work in the world.
  9. The church started in Rome so she is learning Italian.
  10. Pam is a work in progress!

“I will be your God throughout your lifetime - until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.” Isaiah 46:4

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