It is summer and the bikes are out. My neighborhood has no lack of children unless, of the 72 homes there is someone praying for a baby so I will pray. Driving slowly through the streets is now especially important. Yesterday I encountered about a dozen bikes, so paused as they passed. Many are too…

This is not an important post but an interesting post. I stopped writing down words a month ago. I have been reading a variety of books and noting the meanings of “new” words. Some of these writers are either from another planet or know more languages and words than me. I started a list to…

4/27/23 There is No Maybe So Some of you may have noticed that I have been other places lately. I thought I would let you in a bit on the how, when, where, and why of my leaving 9/29/22 and returning 4/2/23. If you have been following my blog, pamschmoll.com, this is old news! It…

It was a long day but needed to become longer. So off to Westgate Chapel in Edmonds for a forum on Worldview formation last evening. I happen to have this definition handy from our YWAM London class on this subject from February 2023. We heard brilliant analysis from Joseph Backholm, a native of Washington State,…

BLOG 6/7/23 I’m Not Special I said that to a very dear friend after she surprised me with a most wonderful gift. I was so stunned that what I really thought came out of my mouth and I feel ashamed. It was a few days ago and I knew I needed to write about it…

It has been a wild eight months. Today I am in Idaho. So many stories. I think about the future a lot lately. And I think about the cross and what I can do now or not do. In Idaho there are many churches but I have seen two or three this week with an…

I read this recently in ‘Our Daily Bread’ on 2 Cor 4:16-5:5. I will not repeat what the author, Arthur Jackson, has so brilliantly written but as a mature person I can feel like a ‘tired tent’. I was so happy to learn that I had not fractured any bones in a fall that took…

Yesterday I saw a friend I met 50 years ago for the first time in 30 years. In catching up I observed that there are too many stories so stick to the most powerful. So, when I was chasing a rabbit down a sad trail my friend interrupted me with, “So, what about the future?”…

THE NEW FAMILIAR by embracing the unfamiliar I have been home one week and am still looking for the toaster. I had emptied some rooms to make space for a friend and it will take time to put my home back together. I did hang two pictures exactly where they had been last year. Then…

I’m writing this from an airport hotel that is actually nice. I was just hoping for clean because of my nasty Rome experience. I got used to it then yesterday they moved me downstairs on the street next to a laundry shop that had a variety of characters coming and going at crazy hours. It…