Patricia Partney Dascher lives Missouri with her husband Richard Dascher. She is a baby boomer born after WWII. Today, she looks out her office window at a beautiful lake remembering the many places she has been in life.
At the young age of 23, she stood in a graveyard thinking she didn’t want to live anymore. After an intervention from God, she committed her life to Christ. At that time she was a housewife who could not read above a second-grade level. She became bed-ridden for 6 months while pregnant with her youngest daughter. She picked up some simple books and began reading sounding out each word. As she developed a love for books she began writing. She took some of her writings to a local newspaper who decided to run her writings in a column called, “Inspiration Point”. For almost 20 years she faithfully wrote her column for several newspapers encouraging and inspiring her readers weekly. Her second book, “Wings of Inspiration” is a collection of some of her writings.
Patricia’s love for people and commitment to those in need led her to work in a Juvenile Court System where she won a national award for developing one of the best volunteer programs in the country. While working in the court system she obtained her degree in Social Work. She has also worked in a psychiatric ward of a hospital with teens who attempted suicide. She later worked at a Battered Women’s Shelter where she conducted inner healing groups to break the pattern of abuse that controlled their lives. She has worked with mentally handicapped individuals at a State School. In 2000-2001 she worked with Navy families with young children when their mates were being deployed.
In 2005 she and her husband published Soul Magazine distributing it throughout the Ozarks. Today the magazine can be read online at soulmagazine.org.
Through her experiences of helping many who were desperate for a hope and a reason to live she wrote, “Suicide Is Not Your Answer” which can be downloaded from Kindle.
She believes God has a purpose and plan for each of us and difficult times work for good in developing our character to fulfill an even greater purpose. Today she has eight grandsons and four granddaughters. She has two daughters and son in laws, three stepsons, and daughter in laws.