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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.

And then some…

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Entries in aborting a viable baby (1)

Sunday
Oct122008

What Does Surviving a Saline Abortion Look Like?

When Gianna Jesson's mother was 7 1/2 months pregnant, she decided not to wait six more weeks and give the child up for adoption. So she entered an abortion clinic. A strong saline solution was pumped into her uterous, and for eighteen hours her baby girl was subjected to chemical burns on the outside and inside of her tiny body.

At the end of the eighteen hours, her daughter was expelled -- alive. The child that was supposed to die, did not. Instead she survived, small and weak, and screaming from the burns. The abortionist was not there to strangle her, so the baby girl was put aside. Still, she did not die. Then a nurse has pity on her. That baby is now thirty-one year old Gianna Jesson. She has cerebral palsy as a result of the saline inflicted on her before she was born.

I particularly like the beginning of this second part of her talk before the Australian legislature. She says,

“So they looked at my dear Penny and said, ‘Gianna will never be anything,’ which is always encouraging. And she decided to ignore them and she worked with me three times a day and I began to hold up my head.

“And they said, ‘Well, Gianna will never this and never that….’

“Long story shorter, I was walking by the age of three and a half with a walker and leg braces. And I stand up here today with a mild little limp, and without a walker and leg braces.

"I fall gracefully sometimes and very ungracefully at other times, depending on the situation.

"But I consider it all for the glory of God. You see ladies and gentlemen, I am weaker than most of you, but this is my sermon. And what a small price to pay to be able to blaze through the world as I do, and offer hope "


With her statement, "I am weaker than most of you, but this is my sermon." I am reminded of the Apostle Paul in Second Corinthians chapter three.

"You yourselves are our letter, written on our hearts, known and read by everybody. You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.

 Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God. He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."