Dignity and Honor
Thursday, June 26, 2008 at 08:25PM
[Pat Kashtock] in Conversations

I hear  

-- Write --

I ask, "What should I write?"   

-- What I tell you --

 but in the interest of "testing" who is speaking, I sit here and bask. I feel like opening "John". As I do I hear   -- 14:1  --   which says: 

"Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in Me... I will come back and take you to be with Me so that you also may be where I am. You know the place to where I am going (for)... I am the way , the truth , and the life."

 

--  And you know Me, Pat.

I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. --

 

I feel tense and conflicted.  Help me not to make "rules" for You like: "Oh well, of course He wouldn't speak to me in the state I'm in -- I'm too riddled with yuck. Why would He want to get near?"

          oh well...  please talk to me anyway if that is what You wish. I wait, Lord.  Let nothing else intervene, not even me.  

         Lord?  So what do I write?

--  What I tell you.  --

what would that be? 

-- Love Me.  Love My children.  My poor, poor children. 

Love them -- they need so much. 

Just love them.  --

 

but how?  What does that mean?

 

--  Treat them with dignity.

Give each one dignity and honor.  My honor.  I honor each.

Treat each with honor as if I were in them -- for I am, when they are Mine.

I "feel" how you treat Me.

Treat Me with love and treat Me with honor

- no matter what the human part of them does to you.

Speak to Me in them.  --

 

oh God.  Give me grace.  You know I cannot do this on my own, in my flesh.

 

--  That is the point.  --

 

but I don't exactly know how to let You love through me...

 

--  Come to Me often.  Come to Me frequently.

I will not leave you abandoned.  I will "love" you.

Oh, if only you knew!  For I am light and I am life.  --

 

 

Article originally appeared on Conversations with God while walking through life, surviving a child's cancer, fighting slavery, death of a child (http://patkashtock.squarespace.com/).
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