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Order and Method

Posted on December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 by Pam

It was going to be an 8.5 hour flight so I purchased a collection of Agatha Christie’s Poirot’s Early Cases. I realize that one of my fav tv detectives, Monk, is a bit of a Poirot model. In both I see myself. I like order and I develop methods. For example, Last night, with my…

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With Whom Are You Touring?

Posted on December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 by Pam

In reading the Gospel of Luke for December, I found a remarkable passage about the temptation of Jesus. Because I have spent the last few months following others more familiar with Prague, I realize a person needs someone who knows the way. Firstly, I don’t believe that Jesus invited the devil to join Him on…

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In the Middle, Toward the End, Part 2

Posted on December 2, 2024December 3, 2024 by Pam

This is really what I wanted to write yesterday but then got caught in the details of winding down my time in Prague. I’ll return to the library tomorrow morning, next, pack up the flat, and fly to Baltimore about cousin Susie on Wednesday morning. Home on Saturday evening! So we are in the Middle…

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In the Middle, Toward the End

Posted on December 1, 2024December 2, 2024 by Pam

Her name is Joann and she is a retired banker from Malaysia. Today we met at the International Church of Prague. She and two friends had trained/bussed for two hours from where they spent the last few days ministering to children in Poland, and are now doing a little touring before returning home on Friday….

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The God of Details

Posted on November 30, 2024November 30, 2024 by Pam

This is my last solo bakery outing of my long stay in Prague. I have raised the consumption figure for pastries/person in the nation. I’m a bit ashamed and will return home with a renewed vigor for all things healthy. I did make a ‘refrigerator’ omelette for dinner last night which will last another day,…

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Flash a Smile

Posted on November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 by Pam

The Apostle Paul is the author of the Epistle to the Romans (see Rom 1:1). Do you think Paul was friendly? He seems too serious to me to be silly but he did have so many friends. Here are those he mentions in the last chapter of Romans: Phoebe, Prisca, Aquila, Epaenetus, Mary, Andronicus, Julia,…

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Just One Sermon

Posted on November 24, 2024November 24, 2024 by Pam

It is interesting how just one sermon can change a life. Today’s sermon changed my year. I am always looking for more ways to grow in Christ. Pastor Mike, of International Church of Prague, preached on Psalm 110. By the end of the sermon a goal to consider is reading five psalms a day which…

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Crashing the Party

Posted on November 22, 2024November 22, 2024 by Pam

I love Christmas. I love Jesus and know the value of the incarnation and still love the glitter and sparkle of the season. I think the devil was flying high until Jesus came to rescue us but I also know he shifted his attention to the things that distract us from the truth. Don’t let…

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Perspectives

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Pam

In Redmond, WA, in January 2025, a Perspectives class will begin. I had wonderful Sunday-school teachers at my home church in Lawndale, CA. I attended San Jose Bible College and Fuller Seminary and Grace Graduate (or something like that) in Long Beach, CA. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful experiences but taking a Perspectives course, one evening a…

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Diagramming

Posted on November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 by Pam

Do you remember diagramming sentences? I liked it because, suddenly, language arts felt more like math and I like/liked math. I actually taught this art to fourth graders for a few years so it is fresh. I think the main skill is to find the action. What is the verb? Verbs are robust in action…

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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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