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The Threat

Posted on April 20, 2024April 20, 2024 by Pam

It arrived on January one. Some one wanted me dead and went into a detailed description on how to accomplish it. I knew the perp because he text the threat. I called the police. I filed papers and faced a trial date to resume the no-contact order. Happy New Year to me! I’m mentioning this experience because it shadowed everything. I never exited my home without checking both ways twice. I developed more security habits. I cried, prayed, and still worried. I left lights on at night. Did I deserve it? Of course no. Have you been threatened? I am a numbers person so I daily calculated the percentage of possibility that he would attack me. I also know his friends and imagined a posse. Every sound in the night made me freeze.

I feel safe now. It’s been a couple of years and the judge did threaten the perp. Just a shout out to my daughter who attended the court appearance and gave the judge a piece of her mind. I love that girl. She is fierce and loyal. This threat made me evaluate my safety network. I shared the threat with my small group and realized I had no phone numbers. My wonderful kids are in other states now. I shared the concern with my closest neighbors and the security system was on-line. I did what I could and prayed when I could not sleep and prayed at other times. It was about money. People do terrible things for money but it was not mine. I was holding funds for a friend and the perp thought he was owed.

Why this comes to mind is I attended Secret Church, a ministry of Radical, last night. We studied the Book of Ruth and prayed for North Korea. These people suffer so much. They are starving and forced to submit to a weekly interview with authorities to make sure they are “loyal” to the crazy dictator. Because Kim Jong Un had a Christian background, his Dad changed the words to Christian songs. Where the songs said God or Jesus, he inserted his name. It is like China editing the ten Commandments. They are killing Christians because only Christians know what they have done. They are the enemies of God and anyone who believes in Jesus. They are starving anyone who will not pledge to Kim Jong Un as their supreme being. These leaders are sick and they live among us. Denying the one true God is dangerous. Living in North Korea is dangerous. My life-threat is nothing compared to a daily realization that if you are truthful about your faith you will go to a death camp. They guesstimate that 70,000 Christians have been imprisoned in camps along with those believers from other religions. These statistics are from non-governmental sources and gathered testimonies from defectors. They are dead men walking with no protection. I had help. They have our prayers.

"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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