thoughts over a cup of strong coffee Posted on June 20, 2007 By pamela Christians are like the flowers in a garden, that have each of them the dew of Heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.” —John Bunyan This quote was particularly meaningful to me… Read more
Anguish over decisions in childbarriering Posted on June 19, 2007 By pamela As I inferred in a post or two ago… there is often great anguish over decisions we make or made or must make in marriage. Actually, more specifically, in the area of childbearing and/or “childbarriering.” I know I’ve made some very bold statements in regards to this matter – and… Read more
Posted on June 18, 2007 By pamela I was going along and got tripped in the school yard and the contents of my knapsack was strewn all over… but I’ll gather things up and attempt to get my papers in order and have something to share in the morning. I was going to write a bit more… Read more
Non-optionals Posted on June 13, 2007 By pamela Time’s a strange thing… it has a wonderful and peculiar way of sort of settling things. Sort of like a river finds that level ground or a lake is formed with the pooling of water… people’s ideas or methods seem to me to tend to be like that. I think… Read more
justaslice Posted on June 11, 2007 By pamela I’m sick. No, really I am… You thought I just might be launching into a rant about some political matter or societal issue or something, no? OR that I stepped off the face of the earth… No… really, I actually feel like I just stepped off a rollercoaster ride that’s… Read more
boys… Posted on June 2, 2007 By pamela Andrew… “Mama, I know how to make people’s heads go away from me [lean back]!” He then licks his finger and directs it toward my face… and I lean my head back. He nearly falls down laughing. I laugh too. Then I watch him go into the other room and… Read more
A slice of this day Posted on May 21, 2007 By pamela I had a message all typed out (and no, I hadn’t saved it) and it got lost in an accidental circuit breaker switch bump. And so it goes… another ooops. I hope to recollect my thoughts on the matter I was writing about bcz it seemed important to me. You… Read more
Motherhood’s Company Car: it’s a dream car Posted on May 14, 2007 By pamela If the apron is the uniform of motherhood, then the van is motherhood’s company car. Now, when a mother first starts out, she has the starter car… it’s the two door model she attempts to “make do” until she has to move up to the dreaded “mini van.” It doesn’t… Read more