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Missing You

Posted on January 6, 2023January 6, 2023 by Pam

Why do I write? I feel connected to people and my thoughts and inspiration when I send a card, email, or write a blog. I have not activated my phone other than to face-time with family so no calls is quite a change from a busy real estate career. So many ways to communicate, even the grand Christmas card gesture on Facebook is appreciated. I was told today that at Wiler (Vee-lar), they have never had a student send so many notes. I have borrowed the campus return stamp many times because this is a long address. I don’t know why compliments/breaking records are hard for me because I probably have an average amount of self-esteem but I am reporting this mention by the office here because it is a tribute to how wonderful YOU are. I love my people! If you are reading this and I have not gotten to your part of the alphabet yet, it is because the past three months have been so busy. I am tired and agree that youth is spent on the young and a little extra “juice” at this season might be nice. I always think God has good ideas though so there must be a reason. Especially this week. Our outreach team is leaving in a few days and here, at the base, there are beginning year meetings. We students have been cooking, serving, and washing, for the people who usually serve us. I must even look tired (so much cloudiness/fog here in winter) or at least paler than usual because someone asked me to take a little break today. I usually argue and tough it out but I agreed and took a little break. I’m washing cloths to pack (feels like a break to me) and feeling like this next change is best. I’m ready to shift from “knowing God” to “making Him known”. However, three months of rapid-fire teaching needs some processing. When you focus on God from morning ’til night for 90 days you change. I am not the same and I don’t mean the tired stuff. Listening to God takes time and quiet time. Who has that on a regular basis? Not me. I have been in the world and tried not to be of the world but it happened to me. It happens to us all. Life has been rapid-fire with surprises, joys, and sorrows. We are a tapestry that is being woven and only God is above time overseeing the next color or stitch. I am stuck in a loom. So I am in my room, taking a break before I head back to the kitchen, appreciating this opportunity and the people who have encouraged me to serve God until my gifts are used up. It feels like today is that day because serving is tiring. Mother Teresa is in Heaven now but she is considered a saint because she spent her life personifying an ideal: to love God, and to love one’s neighbor. Let’s figure out what that means for each one of us who believe in Jesus and will not accept the world’s lie that there are many ways to God. Nope – nada.

"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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