blindsided Posted on February 22, 2017 By pamela I was once in an accident that blindsided me. It happened in a startling flash! And though nearly four decades have passed, I haven’t forgotten sitting there in the car, shocked that while making a left turn in a blind hilltop intersection, I’d just been spun around and was facing… Read more
that you may contribute a verse Posted on February 19, 2017February 19, 2022 By pamela My husband sent me a link to a site — I clicked the link and read the words: What will your verse be? I read and reread the article — trying to comprehend the depth of the meaning of the words. I read the poem from which the thought was… Read more
Two Miraculous Births Posted on January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 By pamela [cp_quote style=”quote_left_dark”]Two births — the birth of a mother, the birth of a child.[/cp_quote]Every time I assist a birth I watch and watch and watch for not one, but two miraculous births — first the birth of a mother, that powerful time of dying to herself with a burst of… Read more
What’s Hypocrisy Got To Do With Anything? Posted on April 21, 2016April 21, 2016 By pamela Every day in the news: a new outrage and the unintended consequence, hypocrisy. Outrage (and hypocrisy) on both sides for or against the cause du jour. Facebook memes, articles, quotes — all over, we’re seeing the proliferation of outrage over the so-called discrimination against behaviour and gender identity. For all… Read more
CSA… It Steals and Steels Posted on February 23, 2016February 23, 2016 By pamela For days my mind’s been flooded with grief and all sorts of other CSA emotions I’ve been trying to stifle. (I wrote this a week ago; gripped with the reality that sexualabuse steals and steels. Today I wondered if I wrote it as another of many, many entries I would… Read more
Surveying The Year Posted on January 1, 2016 By pamela Surveying the Year — (a reprint of a message from 12-31-2001) Happy day to you as you work in your home. I trust the LORD has been working in your heart and home creating in you the woman He designed you to be. As we come to the close of… Read more
Don’t give up, Climb higher Posted on December 8, 2015 By pamela I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. philippians 3.14 Read more
Strengthen The Things That Remain Posted on November 14, 2015November 15, 2015 By pamela And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead. 2 Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that… Read more
Big Trees Small Seeds Posted on November 10, 2015November 10, 2015 By pamela Every seed grows. In the midst of everyday life, seeds are planted. A lot of the time — perhaps most of the time — we don’t even notice the seeds that are planted. Ideas. Pictures. Envy. Desires. Regrets. Pride. Shame. Hope. Doubt. All sorts of seeds drop, drop, drop into… Read more
Pressing on in truth Posted on October 29, 2015 By pamela I thought of the Scripture today where Paul is talking about pressing on and is saying, “… I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark… Read more