After 17 difficult days in the cardiac unit of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, our first son finally came home. We also battled for our second son’s life for 23 days in Denver where he was treated at Swedish Hospital and Children’s Hospital. And our third son spent two days in the Helen DeVos Children’s […]

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher, 1887

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 As I reviewed my Monday morning chore list, the following words dropped into my mind– “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress.”1 Immediately, my elderly friend came to mind. She lived a lonely existence and needed someone to visit her—someone […]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Watercolor by Pamela.
Silent Night
Silent night, holy night,
Son of God, love’s pure light;
Radiant beams from Thy holy face
With the dawn of redeeming grace,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth,
Jesus, Lord, at Thy birth.
Stille Nacht, heilige […]

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In an email on my birthday, my new cyber friend, Patty Ann, wrote: “Happy Birthday Pamela. You will find your gift on my blog.” After clicking over to her blog, I read the following poem:
Strokes of Love
By guest writer Patricia A. Moore
 
When strokes of love are put upon a page,
It speaks the heart […]

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My tongue lit a forest fire. When I opened my mouth, fire and smoke spewed out like a fire breathing dragon. One of my friends began discussing her most embarrassing moments. And without thinking, I joined in.
But my comments brought the conversation to a new low as I mentioned a scandalous […]

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Art is my passion. While watching children playing on the beach, I see images that beg to emerge on canvas. The vivid colors in my garden and the light dancing with shadows entice me into my studio.
Once I start painting, I can hardly pull myself away; I’m driven to […]

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My dad always encouraged my creativity. During my elementary school years, he taught me how to draw after dinner by sketching on napkins. When I turned 10, he enrolled me in art lessons. Proud of my artistic accomplishments, he hung one of my first childhood oil paintings (shown on the right) on […]

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I view the Bible as the record of an intense Love Story between us and God. And I believe that we can, though our actions, add to that Love Story every day.
Lauie Beth Jones, Jesus CEO: Using Ancient Wisdom for Visionary Leadership, (New York: Hyperion, 1995), 305.

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While having tea, Stacey (not her real name) made an interesting statement about fractured relationships in her own life that caught my attention. Literally, I asked her to pause for a moment. As I fumbled through my purse looking for a pen and scrap paper, I hoped she would be […]

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