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  Patricia Hammell Kashtock

Aka: Pat Kashtock. Mother of three, wife of one. BA in Social Work and Biblical Studies. Graduate work at Virginia Tech interrupted, then derailed by oldest child’s brain tumor...

My life has not followed the course I planned. But I am not complaining. Pain is to be expected in a world broken apart from its Creator.

The miracle resides in the ability to find joy when least expected...

 

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  • Modern Day Slavery
    Help fight slavery
    • Not for Sale Campaign
      Every single person has a skill that they can give to free an individual living in bondage.
    • International Justice Mission
      Combating slavery and injustice worldwide
    • The Polaris Project
      Polaris Project works holistically to combat human trafficking and modern-day slavery, incorporating eight different strategies.
    • Stop the Traffik
      Do you want to help end modern-day slavery? "STOP THE TRAFFIK is a global movement working to combat the fastest growing global crime, people trafficking. Around the world men, women and children are being treated as commodities...to be bought, sold..."
    • Loose Change to Loosen Chains
      Innovative way to fight injustice developed by a teenaged abolitionist
    • The World Cocoa Foundation
      (WCF) works to help cocoa farmers, their families and their communities. WCF programs are helping cocoa farmers earn more for their crop, improving the quality of education for their children, and ensuring that cocoa is grown in a safe, responsible manner
    • Free the Slaves
      Campaign to end slavery in 25 years. "As big and ugly as it is, we can end slavery. In Ending Slavery, FTS puts forward a plan to bring slavery and human trafficking to an end."
    • The Chocolate Campaign
      Who harvasts our chocolate? Is there any chance plantation owners forced children to harvast it?
    • Faith Alliance Against Slavery and Trafficking
      FAAST is committed to the eradication of trafficking and slavery worldwide.
    • Soulfest 2008
      Help a Village in Africa through music gathering in New England
    • Stop the Traffik
  • Helping Others
  • Hope Instead of Suicide 
    Friend's blog dealing with suicide prevention. Please visit.
  • Animals and Rainforest 
  • Publications
    Including Devotionals
    • The Upper Room
      Every day, almost 3 million people in more than 100 countries read or hear this meditation in one of the 77 editions and 40 languages in which it is published.
    • I Lift My Eyes Web Ministries
      Focusing on prayer and intercession. Home of The Daily Christian Quote, Whatever is Pure Ezine and over a thousand organized, quality Christian resources.
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Pat

For What It's Worth

Each life is a journey. The voices of many guides try to direct us, saying, “This is the path – walk in it!” Yet each one leads in a different direction.

I believe only one Voice can be true. That Voice will lead us in ways most unexpected, into worlds yet undiscovered. It will lead us up the hill, around the river and through the forest. And sometimes, it will lead without mercy.

Or so it seems.

I have made listening for that Voice and following it, my life’s quest. I will share some of what I have heard that Voice say with you. But I am not in the business of telling people how to think or what to believe. Each has to decide for himself. Only you can decide if you find the truth of the Voice in these words. And only you can decide how much it is worth to know the Voice, and follow.

But for me, it is worth the whole world.

And then some…

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Animated Photos

I find I can no longer load the higher MB animations to this page, so for animated power point backgrounds from pictures I've taken of the Potomac River, deer and other things, please see these pages:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patkashtock/sets/72157617266114218/

http://www.esnips.com/web/AnimatedGIFsfrommycamera

  • Animated Photos from my own photos

    Animated Photos from my own photos (23)

    I needed animated GIFS to use as Power Point backgrounds. One can lay words over the GIFs and the words remain visible when projected. Please note: these are generally VERY large files and can take quite some time to load. There may be ways around that, but I am not sure. You can right click and save the thumbs, but won't get the whole animation that way. Possible right clicking and selecting "view picture" may be faster.
     
  • Animated Photos from other's work

    Animated Photos from other's work (5)

    Created with photos used by permission. Dale Cordell http://www.esnips.com/user/dcordell-Dale invites others to use his beautiful pictures and create animations, etc with them. I encourage everyone to visit his web page at eSnips. Also recently added is an animation of some young friends.
     
  • Animations from purchased motion clips

    Animations from purchased motion clips (9)

    I discovered how to create frames from Quicktime movie clips and animate them. The full sized GIFs don't have the "stuttering" that some of the thumbnails do. I worked to learn how to create these because we do not have a video background player for Power Point, and I like to be able to put motion backgrounds behind lyrics when I can.
     
  • Some family art work -- not animated

    Some family art work -- not animated (7)

    A few pictures we've fond on the Internet by my grandparents, Elizabeth Lansdell Hammell, and Will Hammell, AKA R. Wilson Hammell. Also from my uncle, James Avati.