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End of Day

Posted on November 11, 2024November 11, 2024 by Pam

Just wanted you to see what the end of the day looks like. I will carry a flashlight starting tomorrow because of the construction and cobblestones here, plus my cold-weather boots started to fall apart today. Sometimes I am a wimp. I sliced my finger last week and am remembering that I do not like the cold. There are so many people who are braver than me. For whatever reason, God has made me slow and steady. I plod along in my faith, this mission, hoping about the future, and learning. Real missionaries do not have a backup plan like I do, to return home, after three months. I will come home and then am signed up to serve again in February 2025 plus a middle east prayer conference next April. The next stint of service is in the states – a more controlled environment. My last conversation of the day was not quite a conversation. A lady, older than me, came into the library after dark. Everyone says that Prague is safe. She spoke only Czech but motioned she wanted to return books. Then she chatted up the cafe manager for a very long time. Next she browsed the Czech books for another long time then at two minutes to closing approached me on the transaction of “out with the old books – in with the new she was checking out”. She was the second mature person I noticed and tried to help today. The first was a man with a walker who wanted to get on the tram. There were too many people so he was left behind. What he needed was help but he waved me up the stairs. I think I was supposed to stay with him to help but I didn’t. You know that feeling? You miss the nudge and leave someone behind. I am still slow but steady but at those times I should be slower and notice people. That is why I’m here, not to get back to the flat before I freeze or bump into the only bad guy in Prague. Lord help me do better tomorrow. I’m still here.

"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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