Take It for What It's Worth

Conversations with God while dealing with a child’s brain tumor, modern day slavery, theology, and death

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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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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.

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Squirrels and ADHA Living

Thursday, October 23, 2008 at 10:05PM

Yikes! My memory is so bad!

-- Turning on too much -

oh. not a restful focused mind.

-- No. Not!

Flitter, flitter.

Like that squirrel. -

I see a large squirrel bound from branch to branch, barely in one place for a second.

Wait. There is a smaller squirrel following him. She's much slower, more hesitant. Oh dear. She stops to eat (very funny!) Now she's cleaning her fur. Oh, fuss. She gets totally distracted and turns the other way.

Some time later, I do see the two of them together...

You said before that You do not force us to do Your will because:

-- That would be rape. --

But sometimes I think it would be so much easier if You just did!

-- I don't treat My creatures like that! --

Several days and many distractions I sit again at the picnic table in the woods behind our house:

Groan. So often when I get into a deep conversation with You, I feel like I have to get my pen and I don't want to! I just want to sink into the moment.

-- That time will come, Little One,

In "eternity"

Sooner than you think.

But for now, let's do it this way. -

That last sentence sure had a "period" to it!

Hmmm... there goes my squirrel again.

[Pat Kashtock] |

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