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God is Relationship

Posted on March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 by Pam

We know and say that God is love. He is more love than anything we know but love is usually directional for people. We love a person or a thing or what just happened. We are hidden with Christ in God and still recognize good vs evil. One day love will reign as the only survivor of time. My calling is linked to how I was created in the image of God Who tells His story in time but not before time. Again the narrative is the Triune eternal God in three persons in community before the creation of the earth. Then the creation, fall, Abraham, and Jesus is born – the incarnate God. The church is filled with Holy Spirit and our picture of the Trinity begins to make sense. You and I are in time awaiting the completion of God’s redemption of His people and Jesus’ return.

Everyday we are invited into fellowship with Jesus and His kind attention, Eph 1:1-5. This fellowship informs my day. “For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, ‘Abba! Father’! The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow-heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him in order that we may also be glorified with Him.” – Rom 8:15-17. This day that you have been given, that you want to give back to God, may have some hard spots. I am called to work, serve, guard, order, abundance, beauty, and to mediate this and more. Back to the top, this day is about relationship to God, my people, and the lost. Am I nice? Can you count on me to be brave? Am I using my gifts? Is there any suggestion of royal priesthood?

Paul says that we can be in any circumstances AND serve God. By putting on the whole armor of God we can live like Christ today and I think God loves us for trying.

"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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