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Awsome

Posted on July 27, 2023July 27, 2023 by Pam

I know I’ve spelled this incorrectly but there is a reason. I was reading Revelation 21:1-6. I’ve been using a butterscotch-colored Bible, New American Standard Bible, with the inscription, Robert Verne Orahood. That makes it my Dad’s Bible only all of the notes written over many years are in my Mom’s handwriting – thus the misspelling. Here is the verse she noted, Rev 21:1, “And I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth passed away, and there is no longer any sea.” Nelda Elizabeth Boyd Orahood wrote “this is awsome”. I don’t know why this meant so much to her and means so much to me but I have found similar notes on scriptures that spoke to her. I have evidence of my Mom’s real faith. She studied and responded to God. She also, like me, wanted to be a writer. She wrote some unusual things about reincarnation but I know she understood the truth. She just wondered about a lot of things. Even with the medications she had an active mind. I also know the date she read and then wrote this. In a corner of the page she wrote, Pam’s 28th birthday. That means it was May 25, 1977. That year I was studying for my teaching credential at California State University at Fullerton, California. I was single and would become a high school biology teacher the following year. In 1978 I would also have my first travels in Europe. While I studied my Mom studied. We both love/loved the Lord. I am enjoying this Bible and can conclusively say that my Dad’s middle name (for his Father) was Verne not Vern! She also wrote the following in the margin, “A time of justice”, “Witness to sin or witness to faith in God”, then next to verse 4 she wrote, “A trying process”.

I loved my parents. They both had love and good works but one studied God’s word. I’m not going to worry about this.

"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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