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No Super Powers

Posted on January 4, 2024January 4, 2024 by Pam

I am very grateful that I have no super powers. I have many gifts but no super powers. Today’s example was a drive on a “back” road linking my home to my favorite bakery. So much for a fresh start with my sweets habit. It is all residential and a mad/crazy driver was traveling twice the speed limit. He flew past me on the wrong side of the road. There is something annoying about being illegally passed on a narrow road. I wish this driver no harm but I would have loved to drop a cop car between he and me. We all break the rules but I just appreciate when the other guy gets caught. Does that appeal to you? You and I have been wronged at times and no one knows what that other person has done. They seem to get away with it like today’s rushed driver. No harm – no foul. I am grateful that no people or animals were harmed in his rush to beat me to the next signal.

What about the offenses that cost us peace of mind and cause tears? Something is suddenly broken and getting even sounds attractive. Who comes to the rescue if we are not endowed with super powers? Helpful super powers would be to control time and space. How about fly over the person and anonymously drop something in their path. Invisibility would be an assist. Knowing the future would allow us time to control something we want to prevent. (There was a tv show about that.) I would love to be able to read your mind but I believe that God, who has all power, has given us what we need. If we could control other people we would make mistakes. Even God gives room for us to make our own choices and that is the challenge when I want to hurry home to eat a sweet. Expect foul play. Protect whom we can from the crazies. Use our gifts to make life better. No poison darts at people or tires on the road.

"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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