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Oops – I Did It Again

Posted on August 6, 2024August 6, 2024 by Pam

I’ve done it again. Many days of good teaching/ideas/suggestions but no time to write. I’ll just touch on a couple…

Our moods can go up and down. I know we were created by God but some have extra sensitivities. We refer to those, as children, as being moody or hyperactive while they are just being themselves. Please allow for pouting and extra energy as it is not a sin. I remember a foster child years ago when I was a teen leading a kids church program. I asked Tommy for the umpteenth time to sit down. His eyes pleaded with me as he spoke these works – “I can’t”. That early experience made me a better teacher and I never asked him to hold still again. He was doing his best. A blue day simply means to take a pause and do some sorting and maybe some self-care. I’ll add, drink plenty of water because that is something I attempt but don’t succeed at. Physiology is how we function at the cellular level including those things like blood-pressure, hormones, glucose levels, etc. If something is off see a doctor and then regulate food and liquid intake as we are what we eat. All of this body stuff is just taking care of our tent (body). Pastor Jeff was teaching on Second Peter Chapter one today about living in the knowledge that we are not promised tomorrow. If there are ‘things’ to straiten out, please get off the internet and call that estranged friend if it is safe to do so. Take care of business. Our tents have secret expiration dates. Our tents are becoming unreliable and we don’t know when we may be taking our tents down for the last time. The dash between our birth and death is visibly short…

Has God ever had a booboo? Some call it an owie. We are made in the image of God but He is perfect. We suffer. Jesus suffered. Jesus was perfect but pain was inflicted on Him. He is one in the Trinity. Jesus is the effulgence of God – His radiant splendor not created but of the same ‘stuff’. There is no victim mentality in Jesus. I can’t imagine the heart of God not hurting when Jesus, who knew no sin, became our sin. That must have hurt.

"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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