seat belts… Posted on June 2, 2007 By pamela Yesterday the new seat belt regulations went into effect for Washington State. The laws for use of Blackberry and other handheld’s takes effect in 6 months and cellphone use restrictions, in 1 year. I share all this bcz I’m sort of generally a generation or two behind in understanding/acknowledging/complying with… Read more
Stones Posted on June 1, 2007 By pamela Significant to me are the milestones in my life that were either turning points or celebrations or decisions. Some of the turning points were simply changes in a direction of thought or action—simple things like: from this day forward, I will________. I have marked many of the “I will’s” in… Read more
Motherhood means… laundry Posted on May 29, 2007 By pamela I’m not sure which topic of conversation or question generates more questions than laundry or meals for families. I’m thinking that both are either areas of great frustration or testing or are grounds for great victory or great defeat. As for meal times, women generally ask me questions that are… Read more
Posted on May 22, 2007 By pamela So, I’m sitting here writing a post on Motherhood and a letter pops up in my inbox and I read it and respond… it’s a letter regarding being a keeper at home and the writer asks if its okay or appropriate for a woman to leave her home according to… 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: Mama’s WMD’s Posted on May 18, 2007 By pamela Only in recent years have WMD’s or the term WMD’s become a commonly known or commonly used term. I think about the devastation of weapons of mass destruction and as I often do, I think of how ‘weapons of mass destruction’ might correlate to the home or motherhood. It’s a… Read more
The “church” today Posted on May 18, 2007 By pamela You can just pass over this entry if you’re not interested in reading more about the course of “the church” in America/the world today. I received a newsletter from this morning from Sojourners – I read for info. I had just been reading a couple of articles at Slice of… Read more
Motherhood… hands and feet of Jesus Posted on May 17, 2007 By pamela It was with shear astonishment that I held my first child – our first child – twenty-eight years ago, and it was with awe and humble amazement that I saw that God had, indeed, given us a precious gift. I saw my Lord and Saviour in a whole new way…. Read more