About Me

  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...

 

To translate this website into a language other than English, please go to: Google Translate

Go to the third section and paste in the web address. Select "From English" then to which language you want to use.

It isn't a perfect solution, but you can get the main points covered in a basic way.

Search
Add to Favorites
Links
Articles and Entries
Privacy

I respect the privacy of my readers. Your email address will never be displayed. The last thing any of us want is SPAM.

But if you do provide your URL when you leave a comment, that will be displayed. That way other readers can visit your site. If for some reason you want me to visit your website but do not want your URL published, please use the Contact link on the left. It will provide you with a form to do so.

Blessings,

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…

Login
Technorati Ping
2605869964_cf819f11d2_b.jpg

Entries in the faithfulness of God (1)

Tuesday
Mar172009

Ducks Don't Stay In Rows

 

Ducks Don't Stay In Rows

 

 

I had a question about doing something and I asked you about it. I felt like You said that it was more than okay to do, but as I look outside the vastness of the sky I how can I know the You that is You? I thought You said something, but just in writing the above, I lost it.

Photo by Dale Cordell, animation by Heather Gill

Trying to get my ducks in a row again.

 

 

You trickle down over my head and fill me with lightness.

 

 

-- That's okay. Perhaps it wasn't Me who spoke. ---

Silence.

--- I will never leave you, nor will I for sake you.

Not as the world loves, do I love

but with a love that is forever.

Not just lasts forever

because that alone gives it a starting point.

My love is from forever.

It does not abandon, nor does it seek self gain.

My love is for you,

and with you,

and because of you.

From when there was no time

to when there will be not time.

It is constant. ---

 

What shall I read? I pick up the revolution of character by Dallas Willard.

 

--- No, not that one. Not today. ---

 

Then what?

 

--- Isaiah 42 ---

 

Oh no. The "not bread" one again. Sigh. I do tend to spend myself on the wrong things.

 

But it wasn't that verse. Chapter 42 speaks of how Jesus will come: with both mercy and justice. His tenderness will be so great that He will take care not to break up roost read or snuff a smoldering wick. Yet He will be like a mighty warrior.

 

And we will sing a new song to You while you lead us who are so blind down an unfamiliar path. You do this by shining the brightest light for us and removing the obstacles that would trip us up.

"I will lead the blind by ways they have not known. A long unfamiliar paths I will guide them. I will turn the darkness into light for them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."

 

In chapter 43 You say,

"But now Israel, the Lord who created you... ” (and I think of You that way)

“... says 'Do not be afraid.' (I tend to fear)

'I have called you by name; you are Mine' (something I need settled in my head)

'when you go through great waters and deep trouble, I will be with you. When you go through the rivers of difficulty, you will not drown.'"

 

So often, I have felt like I was drowning. Today it seemed like circumstances would overwhelm me. Thank you Lord for speaking directly to me then showing me in Scripture a place You already said this exact thing.