St.Patrick GOD hears you. Part two

Good Morning

Pig and me have reviewed our short week as she is eating a big Pancake today.

Pig said, she wanted little Pancakes for snacks later and a

BIG Pancake for breakfast so she could give Thanks to GOD longer..

She is funny.

Pig thanks GOD for every bite.

I think it is a good attitude to have.

Not to take even one bite of food for granted.

Food is good for the belly

And Prayer is good for the SOUL and Spirit.

Let's give Thanks before we start our continued story of St. Patrick.

Let us Give Thanks for getting us through all the trials of the crazy weather with flooding and thunder and at home with our electrical fires .

We had a fireman everywhere to help us and then the Electrians that came to fix the burnt wall and electrical wires.

Thanking GOD for family and safety,

Wherever they are as well as my neighbors and friends.

Thanking GOD that all is well and the issues in our Nation

and abroad that we know that

GOD is in control of it ALL.

GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF IT.

No worries as we

Pray for

THE PEACE OF ISREAL.

PEACE FOR THE USA.

PEACE TO UKRAINE AND RUSSIA.

We have all made it through so far.

Let is continue to GIVE THANKS in our day..

Pig and I agreed we should Pray

THE LORDS PRAYER everyone knows that one.

JESUS gave that as an example to teach us how to Pray.

LUKE 1:11

King James Version

11 And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

2 And he said unto them, When ye pray, say,

Our Father which art in heaven,

Hallowed be thy name.

Thy kingdom come.

Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

3 Give us day by day our daily bread.

4 And forgive us our sins;

for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.

And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil.

For THINE is The kingdom

and

The Power

And

The GLORY FOREVER

AMEN

AND

AMEN..

Blessings to your day as GOD

Promises a new blessing for you every morning.

Pig said,  I love that about GOD.

It's like getting a Present every day.

Yes, Pig. I love that too.

You never know what you are going to get.

You just know it is going to be good.

Pig nodded her head in agreement and smiled.

The Book of Lamentations 3:22-23

Yes, Pig , A Promise GOD GIVES you everyday ❤️

Now back to our story about

St. Patrick...

He had just arrived there with all the captives now slaves to the Druid Pirates and The King Mailu was the cruelest of all.

Enjoying his own meanness to everyone was beyond what a young teenager could handle.

They spoke in a language unknown to them all.

They were Idol worshippers and heathens rough and without any knowledge of the one true GOD.

The did sacrifice of people and animals.

That’s scary Pig said.

Let’s not talk about it.

Ok, Pig.

As Patrick now has been given his new name and his new name was

Patrick.

The new job for him was of herding sheep and pigs.

He was glad to be at a distance from the very barbaric people and their lifestyle to see.

Pig said, he got to be with Pigs and sheep.

I bet he was happy.

He was grateful but happy would not describe it.

He was living in a nightmare of being home sick and scared and lonely.

Concerned about his friend and being a slave was not how he wanted to live his life.

Pig said, I understand and lowered her head.

He had the sheep to snuggle with Pig, that part was good.

That helped him to be warm at night and then with no shoes and having sparse clothing so GOD gave him the warmth of the sheep.

That was a Blessing even though the Pirates wouldn't realize the blessing they gave by giving him his job with the sheep.

GOD DID.

No one gave him anything but the fear of not losing one animal or die

Or run away and you will be captured and die.

He was not allowed to eat the sheep or the pigs.

Thank goodness Pig said.

I know how you feel Pig, but this kid had nothing.

Normally animals are there to eat and you know it.

I don't want to hear that part.

I know Pig it's ok.

I gave her a hug.

Patrick was stretched inside with everything inside him he knew was gone.

He would Pray day and night to GOD who made it all.

He would go without food for days and days and was comforted by the words he remembered by his Grandfather.

Who Ministered to the congregation and his Father, that was a Deacon and all the stories he would share with him as he grew up. He was remembering and that gave comfort to him.

Pig said, he went without food?

Yes,Pig

He went without food a lot.

He was not alone.

This was an Island with a lot of poor people strictly controlled.

This was not in a place of fun.

When there was joy as far as laughing and drinking Ale or

When the Druid Pirates would drink and do their rituals you can look up.

Not going to say more about that.

As Patrick would pray he received a closer walk with GOD.

GOD gave Patrick KNOWLEDGE of who HE was and to give Patrick dreams of hope and a future of escape with a destiny.

As Patrick got more bold he wanted to give honor to GOD.

He shared with the Peasant people about GOD the CREATOR of all things.

Patrick shared about JESUS and how

HE saved us from Sins.

This was indeed a tough crowd as one of the stories said, that one of the Peasants cried out we are hungry for food not words of GOD.

As Patrick, said ok.

He knelt down and Prayed in front of them.

Patrick asked GOD to send them a miracle of food to help them to believe.

Just then a herd of wild pigs came

And they captured them.

And food was given them.

The news of Patrick's Prayer sent throughout the villages.

Patrick went all over with his sheep and sharing the few things he knew that would help them know GOD.

Soon over the six years as he learned the language and everyday Prayed to go home.

He was acquiring favor with the people and even a few of the Druid pirates but he wanted to go home.

Then one day GOD gave him a dream

And told him to be ready to leave

That he would be going home soon when HE said, GO.

HE said there would be a ship there and will take you home.

Patrick had practiced over and over in his mind how he could hide and to get away.

But this would be GODS Way.

Not the way he was thinking.

Funny, we do that a lot of the way we think GOD Should do things.

Why should we suffer ?

Why should we have Pain ?

Why should we go through trials ?

GOD doesn't waste anything not even our tears HE keeps in a bottle.

Psalms 56:8

NOT even our sufferings he turns it all around for our good like Jeremiah 29:11.

Patrick didn't think about anything other than he knew he was going to go home.

GOD had heard his prayers.

He was more than ready to go home.

Every night thinking this would be the night .

And then Pig listening, leaned next to me and says when?

Pig ,

GOD comforts you and delivers us in HIS PERFECT TIMING,

and

in HIS PERFECT WILL.

Praise GOD.

Pig said.

But 6 years is still a long time to wait.

Not to GOD.

GOD made the World in 6 days

And to GOD HE SAYS

A THOUSAND YEARS IS ONE DAY TO HIM.

2 Peter 3:8

So six years is a drop in the bucket

In time.

And anyway Pig ,

GOD KNOWS what is just the right amount of time is.

The perfect time is the right time that Patrick needed to be the man he needed to be for GOD to help him to his Destiny.

That time would be the PERFECT TIME.

Pig asked how long did he have to wait?

I don't know Pig.

He just waited and waited and his heart was ready to go every night.

Just like GOD told him.

Then when Patrick was very heavy in sleep and well rested.

GOD woke him by calling his name.

Patrick it's time to go.

He knew that voice.

Patrick was wake now for sure and got up running as fast as he could.

Patrick didn't know where to go it was night time.

He just felt led by GOD to keep running and in the direction he was going.

He could see some of the small night fires lit and the people along the way as he hurried by ever so carefully and quietly.

He kept running and running and he knew the ship was at the other end of the island over 200 miles away and that he didn't know at the time.

After hiding for days and the Pirates are now knowing he is missing and looking for him.

Patrick had to get to the ship that GOD had promised was there for him waiting to pick him up to go home.

The knots in his stomach and his muscles in his legs was to the limit as he still pushed forward.

He was going home and that was his only thought.

Nothing else mattered right now.

He was now on another day as he laid flat to the ground and hid when people were visible and looking for him with his heart beating fast.

Then in the clearing of trees and bushes he could see the ship but it was still about twenty more miles away.

His heart leap inside him with hope as he said to himself

I am almost there.

As I turned to look at Pig

I told her this is roughed land Pig.

He still he has no shoes.

Patrick has the same clothes and are rags now that still remained on him.

Pig didn't say a word, as she anxiously was waiting to hear what happened next.

He finally arrived just as the little boat from the ship was rowing back into the ship to leave.

Patrick called out at by the shore since the boat was close and called out as he said,

My name is Maewyn Succat

And I am the son of the Minister and the church of,

As he explained who he was and how my Parents are of means and will pay you greatly to rescue me from the Pirates that captured me and my townsmen.

Please take me a board. He said.

As Patrick was Praying under his breath to each word he was saying and asking GOD to help him.

Then the Colonel looked at him and said, No.

Patrick's heart almost stopped and then Patrick turned his back to him.

He looked right up to the sky and said to GOD.

Help me, out loud but in a gentle but a confident firm voice.

Just then the Colonel looked at the young boy and changed his mind

and said, Come aboard and to hurry.

Then Patrick boarded the Ship.

Patrick knew GOD was GOD and was indeed merciful to him.

GOD IS GOD WHO KEEPS HIS PROMISES.

AND HEARS OUR PRAYERS.

He wanted to go home but felt a strange connection to the place he lived for six years.

He couldn't think of that now as he was on his way home.

He shared the stories about his adventures there as to all who would listen on the long trip home.

So grateful to GOD and the ship Captain that was taking him home.

The ship dropped him off about 26 miles from his home and he walked the rest of the way home .

Patrick was finally reunited with his family who thought him dead.

Even though his Mother never stopped praying.

The reunion with his Grandfather and Father and Mother and siblings was probably like no other.

A Thanksgiving event of a loved one home ever seen or heard of.

With the long stories he had to share.

That is so lucky for us that he wrote them down in diaries and books still kept.

This is just the beginning of St. Patrick's life and how Ireland would call him back in a dream.

This the end of our long story today of St.Patrick 

Part two

From Pig and me.

Pig said, I can hardly wait to know what happens next ..

Me too Pig, I said ❤️