Comments on: Taking the napkin off the Banana Bread – and the reality of the real “Us.”

By: Darcey

Darcey — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 04:09:48 +0000

Such beautiful insight! Thank you for the gift of this story.

By: Vinny

Vinny — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 19:29:10 +0000

Ahhhh You are back and with a bang ! What a good timely word. I am encouraged and can’t wait to hear more. But as I said Timely….In Gods perfect time and he is sooooooooow good ! ;-)

By: Jamal Jivanjee (@JamalJivanjee)

Jamal Jivanjee (@JamalJivanjee) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:41:48 +0000

Pamela,

This is truly beautiful and very liberating in many ways. Thank you for writing!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 16:02:30 +0000

Thanks Pam for sharing such “Tasty Sweet Bread.” So beautifully and clearly expressed…and resonates as truth to my heart. We see Christ living in you, when we see you. We so enjoyed our time with you and Vinnie last week. : )

Love!
Dave and Ana

By: Susanne Schuberth (Germany)

Susanne Schuberth (Germany) — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 07:42:52 +0000

What a delightful article, Pam! :-) You asked so appropriately,

“Have you noticed that expectations of the way things “should be” get in the way of truly delighting in people and having hope and positive feelings for them?”

Amen to that!

“To believe the best in you and me is to believe in Christ. There is no difference.”

Amen, again. The way people usually take the measure of one another is to look at gender, age, status, appearance, married – or not, children – or not, prospering – or not…. However, the One who is the owner of the universe, so to say, left all his riches behind and made himself a slave for mankind in order to save it out of mere LOVE for them (Jn 3:16). That would be no offense to anyone unless we see that His kind of deliverance is so different from what we might have expected. Perhaps we thought He would change our circumstances as many people in His time on earth had hoped for. In fact, they wanted a king who saved them from the cruelty of the Roman Empire. Alas, that was not God’s plan…

As for me, I remember several times during the last two decades when I really wanted to leave Him because His plan and mine rarely go together. ;-) If I had to rely on MY love for Him, I could easily forget being a Christian – forever. Nonetheless, I am glad that it is His power that puts me through all my struggles and removes all logs in my spiritual eyes that have kept me blind to recognize Him and everyone else in Him as well.

Thanks so much for this thought-provoking post, dear sister. Please, keep on writing! It’s been a joy to visit your site!!

Love <3
Susanne from Bavaria

By: oikoskrk

oikoskrk — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:43:26 +0000

Thank you Pam for putting into words exactly how I feel. BEING in Christ is so much better than performance based religion. HE accepts me as I am because HE made me this way and totally understands my heart in so many ways I cannot even begin to put into mere words. HIS Love is the answer.

Love,

Christopher