Choose Now To Change Your Words And Change The World At The Same Time!

While we did not choose the circumstances within which we have been born..
You and I can choose our own words.

God created all things with His Words!

And you & I are created in His image for Him to do as HE does...
You and I are are both created and called to imitate God Himself...

So you too along with my William and I...
From this moment on...
Start speaking things into existence!

After beginning each day in the early morn of His dawn...reading Scripture and in  Holy Mass receive Him in the Blessed Sacrament of His Altar...

Go out and make disciples of each one you meet and greet along every street inviting them to come with along with you through out your day's journey.

Is this not what HE did?

Jesus was simply walking in and through Gallelie when HE saw each disciple whom HE called ...saw them each for the first time.

So if today when you hear HIS voice in this typed written page...
Harden not your heart...

But right now with just a few clicks of buttons...

Send this blog to your friends all over the world...and both you and your friends by using Friend Connect place your profile picture under FOLLOWERS...the same way you place your smiling faces on Facebook.

And after you do...then also start blessing each broken one you meet along every road on your way to your daily duties!

And when you bless them and break open His Holy Word as to them sharing the scriptures that apply to whatever that they are experiencing right then.

Invite them to come along...regardless how old or young....if you teach class or take classes invite them to sit quietly with you and observe.

And ask the Lord to touch them while they are with you.

And certainly HE will for when you go out into the valleys and hills in HIS Holy Name....HE is with you.

And maybe....most likely...

A day very soon...they will ask to remain with you as the apostles remained with Jesus.

And isn't this what HE did?

Amen Amen!

Father & I Praying for All of you today! If we can wear blue without being blue you can too! We all have much to rejoice & give thanks for even if we must search for it.

Greetings Dear Family!

Regardless what we encounter in life there is never need to allow ourselves to succumb to fright.

There is so much in life that we do not choose nor have full control over...

But in spite of this our choices can affect the degree or intensity of that which we cannot change which we and others must endure and suffer through.

None of us can make choices for our neighbor, our teachers, our parents, brothers or sisters or anyone we meet and greet along every street.

In many small towns and cities here in Louisiana and I am certain the social climate of small communities around the entire world whether in India, China, Brazil, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, or Egypt....our somewhere in the Outback of Australia...right here in the not so big United States of America...

Human nature is human nature.

I remember growing up when I was very young...in Elementary School though this did not merely apply to a particular grade or school year....

I often wondered what it would be like to live in a small town community such as those Andy Rooney of 60 Minutes and later Charles Kuralt wrote about and did film series on television about...

Like on the Television Sit-Com:  "CHEERS" where everyone knows your name...where love & peace prevailed and each human being regardless his or her age.

Growing up in a pit of hatred...my father & mother's house...where no one knew how to love nor have they learned by now over 50 years later...

I imagined that they were angry all of the time because they had too many things to be concerned about.

That though they were no longer renting in the big City of New Orleans also known as 

"The Big Easy" or "The City that Care Forgot"...

When you rent you are typically in bondage where ever you are and this is biblical:

"The borrower is always slave to the lender"

That they were still though now in the suburbs Metairie in Jefferson Parish escaping all of the dirty Orleans Parish politics in a house only ten years old in a neighborhood of families...no rough tough bar rooms or clubs on corners and the largest road...  Veterans Memorial Boulevard was still not yet completely paved....some portions of Veterans Highway were actually dirt and others dirt covered with white clam shells dredged from Lake Pontchartrain and Momma & Daddy's new house that had had only one other owner before they bought it:: the  " Bells" was a full four long blocks away far enough that problematic traffic rarely entered but remained on the major arteries.

And so from the start of my new life with my two brothers & Momma & Daddy at 3909 Haring Road in Metairie Louisiana I could not figure out why Momma & Daddy were still not content certainly not happy for they were always arguing seemingly over something that was nothing for neither of them ever made any sense.

I believe regardless where one lives or what their purpose in life is that anyone who in their heart thinks it is their responsibility to correct all things...

No mother & Father when they marry and have a child on the way has even an idea of how to parent a child...

 unless they were a rare one who was born to parents who also had parents for whom loving was natural and who knew how to correct a child's action or inaction without attacking the child's very heart and soul.

And at least here in North America this is very rare...

But as a Kindergartner in Saint Mathias catholic School in New Orleans on South Broad by Jefferson Davis Parkway on up through when I attended Grace King Senior High School in Metairie...

I dreamed and imagined if life would have been different had my parents not ever lived in a large tough city...like New Orleans.

What if they both had lived their entire lives in Flippin Arkansas where my mother graduated from Flippin High...

Would there stress level be less...would fewer worries or concerns make them more gentle and kind?

Well God is a the only "Dream-maker" and the only "Devil-Deal Breaker" !

HE Himself places our dreams in our hearts...HE Himself leads our minds wondering if we live close to HIM, In HIM & Through HIM.

And in recent years God has allowed me to live my dreams so that when HE gives William & I not merely what we have in our minds and hearts imagined & dreamed will be wonderful when in HIS timing HE decides to...

But HIS dreams & desires for us...that which HE created us for...that which we through out our lives journey towards...all seek but few find or arrive there.

Few ever enter into deep relationship with others or within God Himself and relationships that are true, honest not just on the surface:  "How ya doin How ya doin?...oh really...too bad....well maybe next week will be better....oh maybe next week...and next week never comes"

The truth is most people through out their life times this superficial stuff is all they ever experience or know....and how can such ever know God?

God has given William the opportunity to live in several small cities since Hurricane Katrina two in North Carolina:  Concord then Kannapolis... Then here in Louisiana we have been in Mandeville, Madisonville, and now Ponchatoula where there are only 6000 people and the majority were not merely born here but their mothers & fathers and grandparents too were born here with the exception of maybe a couple hundred who came up here from New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina.

And what I have witnessed is not what I had imagined growing up that folks in small cities and communities have brotherly sisterly love and affection for one another...

Few care whether their neighbor brother or sister  is abused or brutally attacked right in front of them.

In Junior High School,,,  The 70's decade, it became a common slang phrase among the children in all grades both older and younger than I..." What do you think I am...my brother's keeper?  I should say not!  Its not my turn to watch Johnny or to watch Stephanie"  And then they would laugh.

God has proved to us by giving us lives in types of places we dreamed of...in some cases actual places William or I once dreamed or imagined to show us that small town or city folks can be more crude and unkind , more deceitful and out right vindictive and not the laid back no schedule or agenda to life people like Andy Rooney or Charles Kuralt  met "along the road again"  that those folks merely no different than Marilyn Monroe, Julie Andrews, Vivian Leigh, Goldie Hawn,  or Jimmy Stewart they simply smiled and acted for the camera!

Small Town; Small City folks are actually tougher but regardless where William & I or any of you find yourself today...you & I can by choice return kindness for harshness with a prayer in our heart for each angry tough one we meet.

At times when greeted with unexpectant ugliness that seems to have no motivation the shock of it can intimidate us...

But instead we can on purpose consciously on purpose with our words...never silence which is indifference make difficult unchangeable circumstances less burdensome for many....

Our words always matter...our words or lack of words will either make us HIS Holy Saints...or drag ourselves down in the muck as the New Orleans Saints were once called the "Aints" when they were a losing team and their fans wore paper bags over their heads to the football games.

But life is real and not a mere game or a race that we earn a winners ribbon or cup...

Though as Saint Paul wrote of his own life as a race...

If we are always in a hurry to get to still another place...tail gating and oppressing the one just in front of us...

The false urgency we place on ourselves will eventually cause us to break....breakdown that is.

It is never about accomplishing, nor getting ahead of another to win...

But rather it is to be in relationship with others and within Almighty God that we all were created...

Living in mutual encouraging relationship that all can prosper, grow and live...

It is my prayer for all of you today...that regardless what you encounter today....you find a way to be kind...a way to encourage that you yourselves never be blue but wear blue instead and lead others to do so also!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

EstherStephanada!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

       USA

Expect Your MIRACLE Today & Every Day or You Might...

Only those who expect MIRACLES in every part of every day....live lives filled with MIRACLES and far more graces & Blessings than the average person alive on earth.

We receive what we we expect.

If you or I wake up anticipating bad news...

Guess what your phone will ring all day with problems.

For everyone who knows that Johnny or Jane expects days filled with problems....

Others assume that Johnny & Jane are exactly who they are to call & visit with every single delima that not only they personally encounter...

But recommend Johnny & Jane to each person they meet and greet along every single street whether in Ponchatoula Louisiana...

Or on the coast of Madagascar, Nigeria, Malawi, Egypt, India or Yugoslavia.

Earth geography never limits God's laws of deliverance, blessing or prosperity.

Nor is God ever limited by our circumstances.

We can always accept less than God's best and settle for what others are content with....

Or we can reach out for HIS greater gifts.

Jesus said:  "Far greater things than these you shall do...

For I go to my Father at HIS right hand and anything I ask is mine anything you ask in my Name My Father & I shall do for you & through you!"

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Your Words and Lack Of Speaking Words Are Affecting & Changing Our World Daily...So Why Allow Your Distorted Understanding Continue To Cause Death?

Indecisiveness and lack of committing to ones position on any subject  has become a prevalent disease across the United States and I hear in some other nations in the world competing with the United States on economic levels...such as England or Great Britain.

I was wearing today a button pinned to my bright pink jacket that reads: PRAY FOR ABORTION TO END!"

 At a Graduation lunch in a New Orleans Catholic Parish the Sunday following Father's Day 2013...I was astounded the responses I received & conversation it spawned.

I expect this kind of confrontation if & wear it to the grocery store but not to Catholic Holy Mass & to a party of Catholic Families at a Catholic Church.

I was told that "Even if I personally would not abort my child, I don't have the right nor do you have right to suggest to others what they should do!"

Well is preaching & teaching the Holy Gospel suggesting to folks a better way to live???

And so this statement contradicts the entire life of a christian for we are called to always live by the Holy Scriptures that say:  "Let the redeemed of the Lord say so!"

Let HIS life, HIS joy, HIS mercy which endures forever never cease from parting from our lips!

We are to be imitators of God who calls each by name and who speaks good things into being at all times....

We are to like God embracing all that befalls us with great FAITH...speaking hope to the hopeless and life into the dead!

I pray you see this contradiction that we all plainly see and hear all over where ever we go...

Maybe you never thought of in this perspective.

You beginning today...begin right now ...now that you your mind has been opened that you too recognize & see this truth..

You become our new Saint living among us by choosing to no longer be silent but be the defender of every lowly one you witness abused today.

Seek opportunities to be God's voice proclaiming in dessert dry places...by opening your mouth and speaking life into every dismal situation you come upon...even when doing so...by correcting any person who has over stepped his authority or abused the power of their position...will make thee unpopular...you will find favor with God...

You will become God's beacon bringing life to the dead...making old things new!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

EstherStephanada!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

We All Can Receive MIRACLES and Be Vessels Through Which God Grants MIRACLES to Others

Though we must not be afraid of what others will say or think,

Nor can we be controlled by other's opinions are talk of us.

We who desire to be chases down by both blessings and MIRACLES that never cease but only keep multiplying with our joyful smiles and laughter in spite of devils who seek and track us...

We must keep on keeping on singing regardless who is murmuring behind our backs.

As we heard in last Sunday's Gospel the Lord was not concerned of who what about who HE is...

And so shall we must be continuing to bless others with our smiles and songs...there will always be someone like our former next door neighbor Veronica on Alvin Callender Street when we with God were building our home...

She came outside yelling one day not able to understand how not even hers & her nephews hateful actions against us could not kill our spirits.

She came outside as I was singing new songs through joyful tears...tears that our neighbors were trying to stifle the rebuilding of our home.

What we had completed the day before our neighbors had punched holes into in the night...

But I sang new songs to the God above knowing HE who watches through the night from HIS throne up above not only saw the crimes against us in the night but had the power to restore not only that which the angry jealous locusts had stolen...

They who were filled with jealousy, anger and hate and have never been loved nor have loved themselves....

No different than the Ponchatoula local native neighbors who say out of one side of their mouth that they are going to build Ponchatoula into a thriving economic marketing business center, yet they tie up themselves in bondage that they cannot grow...

By shunning newcomers who choose to make Ponchatoula home!

No town or city will ever grow & prosper past the point they are today without welcoming new citizens not only physically into their neighborhoods, and into the community and church families.

Regardless how many families come and are shunned they will eventually move on in the same numbers or even more.

For every family and community has both sincere and insincere folks whom they call their own.

Those whose hearts are pure but were born within a thorny city among hateful tit-tat chatter boxes who love not...

Eventually these too will choose to move onto a better place where they will not be embarrassed by their previous associations whether blood or geographic.

No they will follow the lead of those who come full of life seeking to bless an entire community when they first arrived...but refuse to live an entire life time among grumblers and wishy -washy complainers.

As Joyce Meyer has taught over the years....one can choose to complain and remain and go around and around a same old mountain of a pill.

Or you & I and each of us can reach out and beyond our circumstances for another new dream...when others fight to long and hard resisting thy kindness and blessing...

As Jesus said:  "Shake of their dust and move on..."

Such cities will never grow but as Sodom & Gomorrah will be your town or city who shuns the hearts who of those who enter bearing kindness and generosity of their grateful loving hearts...

Such a town or city will never grow but die  from their own choices....their own deception...

The fruit never falls far from the tree and the selfish resentful hearts wither and never blossom but rather their self-righteousness they fatten and fluff and spread as an eagle spreads its wings...

Then they go around time gloating convincing themselves and each other that they together did a good thing.

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

We All Better Start Baring Each Other's Burdens With Love and Laying One's Own Life Down For.....Or...

As long as many men are glorifying their own bodies....whether building, bulking up their muscles with weights to compete...

Say for Mr. America contests...

Or simply to be the biggest man in town...

And women wearing tight vulgar clothes that actually reveal more of their exact curvatures than if they exposed their naked skin...

Our youngest sons through no fault of their own...but yours will become SEX driven and needy long before they would have even had interest in taking a girl on their first date!

And we would not have teenagers or their mothers killing teenagers over sexual desires...as sadly happened this year in Ponchatoula earlier this year!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

A Warning To Everyone For When You Open New Online Accounts....Humorous Consequences That Can Make For More Dangerous Circumstances If Not Caught or Corrected...

Anyone who has known my husband William and I for any length of time know that for my first 49 years of iife that I had physical tunnel vision for real!!   Yes REALLY!

 

That I only saw a small portion of any one's faces at a time, and that I was raised as a sighted child because my parents would not acknowledge my challenges for they were ashamed of "who or what I was."

 

And that on the Feast of the Holy Family 2009 I received a Eucharistic MIRACLE in my eyes and have enjoyed given thanks & praise for nearly three and a half years of landscapes and full length drapes!

 

So I have done some amazing things for someone who literally at times could not see what was under her ow nose!

 

I graduated from Grace King High School without ever having read much with understanding.

To satisfy my mother I sat on my bed for hours just every once in a while turning a page....

But since what was printed in those books made no sense to me and I could not see...

 

That time was not wasted... for in my heart I was not in a chair at a desk nor was I lounged on my bed reading...

I was conversing with my Lord my God and your God...

I would ask HIM to fill my heart and mind with whatever I needed to know...to stay safe at home, school or on the school bus...

Walking down hills or through my neighborhood.

 

A friend who I had not been in touch with for quite some time sent me an invite to open a "  LinkedIN " account.

Happy to hear from her I did just that thinking I could take my time that there would be no hurry to build a resume for myself and at a future date possibly this could help me grow a licensed business with  income doing what I enjoy the most...free-motion embroidery, crochet and writing.

 

But what happened was as I opened this "Linked IN " account, I was interrupted.

And as always, I embraced my interruption... as you do too... 

Took care of whatever it was my husband need that time....

 

I do my share of asking him questions that too for him are not at the best timing...

It happens in all marriages in all kinds of friendships...

 

There is no fault placing here...  No anger or frustration but rather jovial laughter and entertainment...

Life is much easier when one can laugh at and with themselves...

But what happened since I did not stay with the program as I first began opening this Linked IN account was it automatically sent invitations to everyone who I ever wrote an email to from the first date I opened this email address.   And not only to these who I possibly only wrote once ever, some were business inquires that I never thought about again in over 5 years.

 

Other auto invitations went to folks who I never wrote but their email address was attached to one of those cutesy poems with pictures many just keep forwarding and forwarding over and over...certainly none of these I ever thought would one day show up as "CONNECTIONS"

 

And since I at times post to my blogs not signed into blogger but from my email as I am doing now...

Linked IN posted connection requests to my blogs for about a 5th time last night.

 

So instead of going into Blogger and removing those comical posts  "MrsStephanie............invites you to CONNECT"  from my blogs...

I am leaving Linked IN right there...

Instead I will post this on all of them...

 

And make a game of it...

 

But it could have serious consequence when an unsent invite is accepted by someone who is worse than unpleasant.

 

I HAVE CUT OF several CONNECTIONS....some without any explanation.

 

Check your email contact list for many email systems save all information as your potential contacts even though you do not routinely write email to them nor they to you.

And you can possibly also have your account hacked into through these odd seemingly insignificant addresses that seem not worth even giving time to DELETE!

 

But do it!  DELETE DELETE!

And when you open new accounts do not let systems access your contact lists, manually type the ones you want to communicate with the new account and you will have fewer headaches of             SPAM JAMS...

 

And you will not have to check your new account more often than you would have liked to to make certain you have no spying new connections...that maybe unsafe for you...

As happened to me!

 

But the Lord will always keep us free indeed with out needs HE cannot nor will not meet...

And when the devil does raise his head....

 

Whether a cyber spyer...a marriage divider...or simply folks who some how did not learn or remember from Kindergarten how to introduce themselves and ask others their names....

I guess till Jesus comes back there will be those who try to force themselves upon others instead..

 

When anyone is rude, crude, or  speaks with forked tongue...

Remember our Lord said to cut off the hand that causes us to sin...

 

Don't you wish that it was as easy to get rid of all of these....as pushing or clicking a DELETE BUTTON!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

How Are Your Words Changing The World Today?

Every person is always creating something at all times...
And they need not have tools in hand of any kind...

They need not hammer or nails...
Need not fabric and needle to stitch sails in order to glide higher and higher above all clouds of circumstance...

All they need do...
Is choose to never be blue and instead sing out new songs of praise for what is not yet...but shall be..
Because you chose not to be blue but to wear blue instead...

And doing so we remain in the pink and we never need to ponder worry or intently think about anything...
For HE who is within us ...
Who has already over come the world...
Keeps all things in sync within the confines that they need be...

So if your trust is in the Lord...
You really need not be concerned about what goes on...
When your back is turned...

For HE remains both in front and behind you & me and each one who never fears but cheers Alleluia Jesus!
HE never forsakes...the ones who trust & sing to HIS Mighty Name...

So be at peace dear friends...
Simply do not wait or post pone carrying out each instruction HE places within your heart...

And no devil from hell will ever be able to snare you...
For HIS obedient little ones who keep singing in the pinks and never the blues....
Will one day make headline news...

When the evil ones are no more...
But cast into the abyss forever more...

And all because you chose to laugh & sing rather to become bitter about things you cannot change nor did you cause...

So let us today...sing new songs of praise today as we walk along the roads of our neighborhoods...
Spreading joy & peace with laughter that dispells all any weariness that may be dogging some...

And when we do...
Naturally others will also choose...
To lay down their old grumbling ways...
 that tie down...trapping themselves within that which they set me and you...

And they to can exclaim...
"I'll Never Be Blue Again!!!

Anyone Who Insists On Being Vulgar In Their Dress Language or Behavior....Can Expect to Be Caught On Camera and Become The Latest Uncovered Vilan On THe World-Wide Blogs

William & I have been thoroughly amused at the crazy behaviors of those who cut themselves loose...

 

Simply hilariously funny all that we had been folks do in both the Bohnigs and Winn-Dixie parking lots to catch a glimpse of the couple everyone is talking about...

He walks her in and asks for a sample which he blesses and breaks and shares with her.  Then orders either only 2 or 4 slices of low salt turkey or occasionally ham...

with a deli salad and a sack of rolls...unless they bought the rolls the night before.

 

They like to hear my dearest call me:  "My Sweetie-Pie" as he tenderly protectively walks me through the parking lot to our van shielding arrogant male gaukers from approaching me with their hands.

 

But these men & women who wish to have us as friends...they must change how they dress first before we will ever entertain conversation...

Instead of introducing themselves from a natural distance of a few feet away...

They have forced their way by confrontation...

 

Mary Ernst tried bull dozing us over with her shopping cart in the Bohnigs Super-Market and the big giant RED-Headed Roly-Poly always dressed in royal purple...at least one of her garments... has tried backing over me with her metallic colored small car.....more times than I am able to keep tract of....

 

But her venomous attacks come only once a week before the 5PM Vigil Mass!

 

I can understand why she is full of such rage...

She set her self up to be grumpy always by driving a vehicle that which the roof or ceiling is not tall enough for her.

 

She's a big big chunky woman...TALL but her gigantic abdomen weighs her UHGggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg...

Actually dragging her upper body down several inches crunching over her stomach...

 

Honestly....I am surprised she can rise up to or for any occasion at all...

But why she didn't buy herself a taller car...

But frustrates herself even more each time she ever goes out doors.

 

I cannot ever imagine her choosing to walk instead of drive and ride....

 

Soon and very soon....she and the rest...if they change not their aggressive revengeful behavior against us or against any one within our presence they will eventually be caught on EstherStephanada's Camera!

 

And the only mercy they will be shown is to made the "Uncovered Villain on the BLOGS 5, 6, or 10PM NEWS"

 

Cameras ROLL'N

Our Words and Actions Do Matter Always...We Create Our Enviroment Ourselves....So Never Complain to Anyone But Yourself!

Regardless what your circumstances are...

For many things are out of our control.

 

We can accept that which we cannot change while choosing to speak only kind words that do not divide but lift high and heal...

Pure kind words that heal body soul and mind regardless how snoody and grumpy a rough stiff-necked one is to you you cany-can -can stead of returning his our her own jealous hardboiled..carborator chewing vulgarity back.

 

You can simply say as I have to such a prune:  "Sory you feel so bad...hope your better soon!"

But never let such a snot drag you down from the clouds where you have flown upon HIS Holy Wings of fire...

 

Remember every man woman and child was created in the unique image of Almighty God and each one was given the ability to love...for love is what we were created for....and let not those who refuse to receive your love and return it...never let one of these grumpy grump bumps an a log get you down.

 

Tell them to wear blue without being blue..that if you do in spite of their behavior towards you....then they can wear blue without being blue or stewed and can change their grumps to a cheery mood and be included more often any where any time...

 

For a cheerful love giving one without an angry jealous spirit...

Is always more than welcomed but always sought after for their joy & laughter not only instantly fills any room...

But spills out into each one who in turn spills and spreads it in just as many directions an all have much affection for such a one who choose to never be blue nor let any lemon sour-graper

poison their dispostion, but rather simply blesses their day and moves onto meet and greet those who walk in shoes of peace and never folly.

 

All of Us Were Created to Be Great Saints...Living Honestly, Purely, Kindly, Lovingly is So Easy...Far Easier Than The Wicked Realize!

You and I were created by God for God and HIS Divine purposes.

 

God created man & woman after being frustrated with HIS first creatures...the angels.

 

There actually exist folks that say that there exists no heaven or hell you get what you deserve in this life according to your own behavior.

 

And it is just "feel-good" to believe in angels...so there exist those who believe in angels and have pictures and statues of angels all over their homes and offices but insist that devils do not exist.

 

How does one balance in their minds that God created angels and later man & woman and placed them in a garden to flourish without accepting the fact that Lucifer the angel with greatest rank and power committed the first sin of pride and was cast down with many angels who became prideful and arrogant with him??

 

Would God have created man & woman had the angels not disappointed HIM?

 

We can never know this in this life and possibly God may not ever tell us even once we have lived the full lives

 

And yet while this is a "partial truth" that all of our own personal choices...both in our behavior and our words do create the atmosphere which we will either enjoy or must endure in this life...

To take only parts of God's Holy Word and believe them or apply them one is doing themselves a dis-service.

 

For regardless which scripture some folks refuse to accept into their hearts & minds as truth because they want to dance & dabble with glamor of evil...they really are cutting themselves a short stick or rod to carry as a weapon that has a bitter taste not just to those whom they abuse with it...

 

But anyone who lives by the sword will die and by the sword and perish & suffer the fiery flames of hell for eternity.

The wicked may seem to have many friends and to have the comfort of wealth and high places that they take over by force....

 

But in actuality anything acquired by force or deceit is always at risk of siege of attack for recovery.

 

So those who choose to live by only parts of God's word will always be arrogant because they have something usually much that is dishonorable to hide.

 

 Such arrogance & self-righteousness always requires a calculating and theatrical personality.

 For those who have believed the lie of the devil that having ever sinned is dishonorable cannot ever be freed by the truth which is the only thing that can give any heart the peace, joy, love and mercy that they long for.

 

 The chore of building and working their memory in order to prevent contradicting themselves....or simply being seen blowing up because they are concealing so many lies that are too great for any man to cover.

 

They fear losing the respect and admiration they enjoy  of some who see them so rarely that they have been able to maintain their performances for "a little while."

 

The sad truth that they now cannot perceive is that those whose love, respect and admiration is so important, will actually love respect and honor them for more as giving God thanks and praise that HE has completed drawing he and she whom they love much the full circle into Himself through the gate of HIS Mercy through Sacramental Reconciliation and the love, respect, mercy, honor and peace that surpasses all understanding will be theirs to share with those they feared losing forever!

 

And thus we can all see that it is in only accepting and living by all of Sacred Scriptures one can live! 

And when anyone lives by HIS Commandments receiving all of the sacraments frequently especially going to Sacramental Reconciliation and receiving HIS Holy Eucharist frequently that HIS Holy Word & very life is vibrant within us can we recognize lies when we hear them.

Thus saith The Lord.

 

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Will You Be a Saint as WE Are All Called to Be and Speak HIS Words that Some Who Even KNOW HIM Refuse to LIsten to and Ignore? How is it that the spiritually educated who lead us cannot accept that not all souls God has created will be in heaven? Why can't they recognize God's Wrath?

We are all called to be Great Saints!  Let's not miss this opportunity!

Why strive to do just enough to get by when IN HIM, THROUGH HIM, and WITH HIM...
HE Himself said: "You will do greater things than these for I am going to my Father and what you ask for in MY NAME will be done for you"???

HE said not to rattle on about our problems and mountains...
But to speak to them....

Tell your disease it has no authority in your body for you belong to HE Jesus Christ who walks upon the waters and calms the seas...

HE is the one in you & in me who has already over come all things!

Recently in obedience to God I began a few new blogs to address harsh bitter attitudes that in the past lived among us, but were then the minority of society and usually they became the outcast.

 

 

But sadly today it is the opposite...the brash, hateful, unkind, harsh ones are the majority and when they encounter true kindness as Mother Teresa once wrote in a poem...  They do not understand why anyone would love them....so they return hostility and hatred for the love they had hoped and possibly prayed to receive...

 

But their brash hardness of heart pushes away those who seek only to love them and be loved by them...

Then they say that there is no God for a God who loves would have answered my prayers.

 

And thus God's Holy Word is full filled again...  "The sighted will be made blind and the blind will see!"  Do You See What I see???

http://TheEyesEyesHaveIt.blogspot.com

 

Here is one sample response I have received from one of many religious order members who reads my blogs and other writings.

 

And below her response is the original

On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 11:41 AM, <sister> wrote:

 I DON'T AGREE WITH YOUR OUTLOOK ON THE STORMS...HURRICANES AND STORMS ARE NATURAL DISASTERS...  GOD IS LOVE....MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO SUFFERED LOSSES DURING THE DISASTERS WERE GOOD PEOPLE...FAITHFUL BELIEVERS...  OUR SISTERS WORK IN HAITI AMONG THE POOREST OF THE POOR WHO SUFFERED TREMENDOUS  LOSSES FROM ISAAC BUT THEY STILL PRAISE THE GOODNESS OF GOD FOR PROTECTING THEM FROM THE STORM'S WRATH

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From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson

Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:48 PM

 

Hallo friends...I trust you all are okay after Isaac as we are....storms come to wash & cleanse the land of hate, sin that wicked or even those who consider themselves Christian but refuse to shake some form of Idolatry or sinfulness.

So I believe all of you are safe as we continue to be.  In actuality storms come for the sake of HIS righteous ones who seek HIM with all their heart from morning till dark.....to wash away anything that does not belong in a Christian or Catholic's life.

http://MaryTylerMooreDidYouKnow.blogspot.com

 

http://SoonandVerySoonandSuddenly.blogspot.com

 

Love you all,

 

EstherStephanada!

Not many, not even Church leaders want to preach the Truth boldly anymore!

They fear the rise of out rage of whose toes their words will convict.

 

But as Mother Angelica on her programs which began airing on EWTN in the 1980's always said:  "We are all called to be great saints...Don't miss the opportunity!" 

And as a small child in the 1960's I was told that I would be a great saint one day....and I had the Faith to say:  "Whatever YOU say Lord!!! You KNOW EVERYTHING!"

 

Saints can never be silent...for by definition Saints are those who are bold to stand up for the weak, the poor and the trampled upon that no one else either cares about.

 

Saints are also the ones who refuse to talk focus on what they cannot do themselves or what they do not have and in spite of those who try to stop them focus on what God can and promises to do for them and through them regardless how many angry letters they receive...

 

Some so angry that they send through postal mail and do not sign them!

 

Saints are willing risk their lives for their own spouse, sister or brother in FAITH that HE will rescue them both...

and endure the hate and rejection of those who do not love, honor and cherish their own husband or wife as we do.

 

Today in a society where priests actually allow men & women to wear very tight vulgar fitting clothing on the altar reading the scripture readings of the day, creating a conflict of conscience within the hearts of anyone who tries to keep their thoughts absolutely pure...

 

More saints are needed to stand and speak up and let the heads and bodies roll where ever they may roll to...

And don't get frightened when they yell, scream, rant or rave that you have corrected them!

 

Let them squirm and squeal!!

 

When enough of us who want to remain pure while participating in Holy Mass press our Pastors to choose someone else to read who is addressed appropriately when a lector shows up in vulgar or revealing clothing...

 

It will happen!

 

And styles worn will change and become more modest.

 

But only if folks like you and me join and speak up!

 

So today write a letter to your pastor and let him know... and even better you can bring a petition to your pastor after having as many as you can from your community to sign it!

 

Friends go forth now and dare to live saintly....as all of us were created to be great saints...lets not miss this opportunity!

 

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

 

Keep Your Light Pure & True and Live Vibrantly....Less Ye Die!

Your words, my words and the words spoken by every person is what causes our world to be what it is at any given time.

 

Have you noticed that some folks simply always to be in a good mood regardless if their tables or covered or their cupboards bare?

 

There was a time when such folks were not so sparsely scattered...

There was a time when the priorities of the majority placed people before things,

And folks that maintained a spirit of joy through out anything the world could dish out were welcomed into any gathering.

 

But today many to most folks just do not want to be happy!
And truly kind hapy joyful folks no longer enjoy a wealth of friends because most folks today would rather wallow in self-justified anger and pity...which anoer word for this is ARROGANCE!

Most folks want to pout about something...anything that they cannot change.

It does not matter what the thing or subject is.

It is about letting off steam and while doing so being a totalarion over anyone who happens to be in their way.

 

They simply want to display their "Right" to be: Justifiably ANGRY!!!!
Their "Right" to be:  CONTROLLING???

Their RIGHT to be ARROGANT and Higher, more important than the ones they detest....that they can TOWER over and OPPRESS anyone so that they can for a moment think or feel better about themselves.

 

As my William & I  have traveled much and not always has it been by choice...

I have noticed that it is rare to meet anyone who is happy about anything.

 

Even in large senior centers where many gather to socialize and play games with friends...

Whether old friends or new friends....fun and joy can be found???

 

I remember singing on Girl Scout buses:  "Make new friends but keep the old...One is silver and the other gold!"

The reason hardly anyone has joy anymore is because they cut of the source of joy off before they can receive or be filled.

 

Just as there exist many folks who would rather suffer and remain in physical pain and be intellectually correct saying their is no medical cure and continue to brood in the dark where there exists no light...

Than to step out into the light of Jesus Christ that can heal them and raise them out of despair upon wings of hope...

Because in the light others can see their short comings and instead of being freed from the need to hide ones own sins...suggesting one should be perfect and blameless.

 

But rather the truth is that all far short of HIS Glory and it is in confessing our sins and shortcomings in the sacrament of reconciliation that Jesus Himself instituted when on Pentecost HE said: 

"Receive the Holy Spirit whose sins you forgive are forgiven and whose sins you hold bound are held bound."  ...that HE washes us clean and we cany -can can start all over as new creations, pure, innocent and holy.

 

And each one can from this moment on by making drastically new and better choices of speaking only words of honeycomb while never again going back to their old behavior and old patterns of speech, but rather from that point on speaking of their past honestly they can give a testimony of how their old choices held them bound in sin, depression and anger...and about how the moment they forgave everyone even possibly parents and grandparents who have long ago been in graves....how forgiving them possibly at their grave sites gave them the ability to live free, happy and in peace for the first time ever!

 

And this life can be yours when you make the truth your way and path of life!

 

 

We Can Rise Above All Circumstances...As We Choose to Speak Honeycomb Pure Words of Kindness!

Every Catholic should know how to rise above all strife and any kind of oppression by speaking only honeycomb words of kindness and never bitter harshness.

 

All Christians who respect the Holy Word written within the pages of the Holy Bible should know well how to say what they mean and mean what they say...

Let your yes mean yes and your no mean no...without profanity!

This is integrity.

 

When anyone speaks profanity of any kind they may think they are "adding emphasis" to what they are saying.

They may think: "I want everyone to know I mean it!"

 

But in actuality they are exposing themselves to the quiet wise & learned their stupidity and that they are controlled by the evil one...the devil himself!

 

So when you choose to not become unglued when a ridiculous one blows some steam out of his our her mouth,

When you rejoice that this evil one has pointed him or herself out so that you can now avoid them...

Sing HIM new songs and HE will lead you along to a better place with others who belong to HIM...

 

And just as you have now found this blog and can follow along with many who love and serve only The Lord...

Others too will be attracted to you because you not only seek HIM with a sincere heart..

But the support and friendships you both receive and share will soon multiply like yeast in a new bread and roasting marshmallows around HIS flaming fire of love...

Above and upon on eagles wings our hearts will soar together over tragedies into HIS triumph!

 

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

Our Words Always Matter...For Every Word We Speak is Either Building or Tearing Down Something Good & Pure... Our Anger Could Be Building the Dominion of the Evil One WE are Complaining of and do not Even REalize It!

God will change others and the world as we who belong to HIM and know HIM intimately change our own vocabulary to reflect HIS mind and heart.

It is not enough for us who hear those we know and love speak falsehoods without correcting them and redirecting them...but our efforts become futile unless we first seek HIS heart and choose HIS words that HE places within our hearts while under HIS anointing for the actual task of correcting a particular individual.

We must first ask God within our own hearts...How did this particular person or group come to think what they think or believe what they erroneous believe as truth.

Sometimes like FR Kenneth Roberts before he had died used a black flag with a white cross on it to teach parents to communicate with their teenagers.

The teens were looking at the black squares but could not see the four white squares.

Both those who could only see the black squares and not the white cross... both were correct that they could see what they claimed....whether the white cross or the four black squares...both saw something different that was really there....one was a negative truth and one a positive truth. 

And sometimes when we find ourselves in conflict with friends...one sees a negative truth, one chooses not to focus on the negative but the positive.

But then there are those who have been deceived by the evil one also known as the great deceiver...they do not see the white cross or the black squares.

What they see is a distortion of both truths.

These distortions cause many to live making evil choices against the 10 Commandments...
They say: "If there is no God why bother to live according to God's Laws.  Why not go out and party hearty have some fun because you live life once and once your gone your gone!

Most atheists and agnostics say they are what they are for the shock value...attention getting.
And some who have fanamanal illentelegence can do this long enough to convince some...but in actuallity they are just having fun...

Showing off their giftedness in a poor fashion while not really believing what they are professing or rather not believing their own complicated arguments...just trying to perplex you...simply tell them to find something more valuable to invest their time and energy within...

That you will not be moved or come unglued...and that your time is too valuable to waste.

Once you express this once, such a person will never forget what you have said...
So even if such an intellect returns to you for another repeat conversation of the same subject...

Do not even give him our her the satisfaction of decling or accepting.

Change the subject and act as if you never heard them and in the future they will not want to waste their time in such a way...because their "pay-off" which was seeing you come unglued over and over...

Such an emotional or intelectuall "pay-Off" removed will then make being an aithiest now a waste of even their own time.

The sad thing is however that some who quietly witness such conversation and behavior between such gifted intellectual fools that waste their energy and time...some of these quiet witnesses who lack the same intellectual ability of the show offy intelectual ones...

These witnesses who are not as smart could go astray after being impressed with such glorified nonsense because they lack the ability to recognize and understand what was said.

The show-offy so called intelectual aithiest who is lieing about being an aethiest....
This man or woman GOS WILL definately hold to a higher account and HIS Words say: "Woe to anyone who leads even one of my litle ones astray!"

So intelectual show offs...be weary!! Look out!

God will entrap you with your own devices you think are games but are not!

Amen Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!




Regardless where you and I are on any given day...each one of us are building contractors building something near us and far away...as far as our words travel each day!

Every Word We Speak is Creating Something....But What?

Every word you and I... and each man, woman or child ever speak..
Is creating something within someone and sometimes within many who hear our voice.

Often folks are watching and listening and observing us without us even noticing...
So what are you speaking whether at home or out and about.

The word of God says that a person who is filled with God cannot, that it is impossible for such a being to speak harsh or unkindness.

And a man or woman who is full of deceit, hatred or jealousy...such a person is not able to be genuinely kind even if they try...

For out of the fullness of the heart he or she speaks and even if they pretend to be righteous...
Satan is the deceiver...and no one can deceive without at least appearing to be good.

But eventually the true character of one controlled by the evil one comes out because lies always catch up to everyone who is not honest...The Truth always sets all free indeed.

So choose your words carefully... with purpose and compassion
 and for those who must re-train their tongue...
It may help to envision what each word thou plan to speak will create before one actually opens thy mouth.

Envision thy words as seeds being planted in both thy community and God's Kingdom.
Envision what thy words would create within thyself if spoken by another...before opening thy mouth.

And slowly anyone can change the direction of their own life from a path of destruction and cruelty to the joy of giving life!

Amen Amen amen and Alleluia!

Have You Ever Said Something...Then Wish That You Had Not?

Some may think and even say that everyone has regrets and that everyone says things without thinking...
So there can't be anything wrong with it!

Think again!

I grew up on Haring Road in Metairie Louisiana in the 1960's into the 1970's during a time in which most families never locked their doors and yet everyone knocked and waited for the door to be opened...and never just walked in.

Most of the adults  on our block were Roman Catholics even if they themselves did not practice their Faith bringing their children to Mass with them every Sunday...they called themselves "Catholic" as if it placed them into the "In Club" though their behavior at times would lead most to question what they actually believed.

Having been born dead and resuscitated I had many mental challenges that made it more difficult to learn than the other children growing up on Haring Road, or Green Acres Road around the corner or those in school with either me and or my younger brothers.

My parents were and still are very proud and still even today at 75 and almost 78 years of age have self-righteous critical, judgmental attitudes and spirits.

Long before I learned my name without forgetting it...5th Grade and I repeated the 4th...
I recognized my parents lacked the ability to forgive and or love themselves;

Their words always hurt or even broke our hearts ...they called it constructive criticism.

Kind words like honeycomb heal body mind heart and spirit but harshness always dries up the bones...it is called arthritis and I have never met anyone who suffers arthritic pain who either has not a harsh critical spirit themselves or has been a victim of such a person whom they cannot get rid of.

When ever you hear another say...or notice coming out of your own mouth:  "I am sorry...That is not what I meant to say!"

Get a revelation!

Out of the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks and it is impossible for a person who has rejected GOD who does not love to speak only kindness.

Evil can only conceal itself for a certain amount of time.

Eventually a person who is full of hate will literally break into pieces after hearing him or herself pretend to be kind...eventually every persons true colors...true personality comes forth just as with dawn a new day!

What is said or done in darkness...in secret...will always be revealed in and by the light...
The TRUTH will always set us free so never be afraid of the truth even when your truth is hard to believe...

When you or I live humbly and honorably seeking opportunities to be a kind blessing...
When we choose to change our usual unkind words to kind ones and purposely clean up our mouth...

GOD will honor our effort and give us new hearts for love alone....Make HIS Holy Words be your own spoken words and through you and us HE will change the world as HE turns it one day and night at a time!

HIS Holy Word Says HE WILL SEND STORMS...So Where Does the Term "Natural DISASTER Come From?

Through out the Old Testament GOD refers to sending storms!

HE told Noah, in drought  to build the Arc that soon  it would flood!

Through out scripture storms washed away many.....

Lot's wife looked back and turned to salt.

Storms are sent by GOD to cleanse the land of those self-righteous fools who refuse to live by HIS Ten Commandments.

Those who will not turn from their wicked ways with a bit of chastisement...
Will not be tollerated by GOD THE ALMIGHTY FATHER....

Certainly not when their mischief is always targetted at HIS lowly Faithful obedient ones.

Storms will always follow HIS Righteous little ones...for HE leads them out...and as they follow....
HIS WRATH FALLS where they once were!

Great are he afflictions of HIS Righteous...But The LORD delivers us from them all.... But Always Always through the storm which they, HIS Righteous are always sheltered from...!

Proverbs 10:25

Job 5

EstherStephanada!

We are All Products or Prisoners to Our Own Choices and Our Words!

Have you ever yearned to change the world...as the old Coca-Cola commercial of the late 1970's into 1980's inspired so many?

"I'd like to teach the world to sing....in perfect harmony....I'd like to bring them lots of Coke and keep them company!"

The first phrase for sure is a correct quote...the next line may not be exact...but that was the subject and purpose of this sing-a'long-song that everyone back then sung or hummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmed even if they literally had no voice but were hoarse!

52 horses yesterday were adopted in the quickly when it was posted to Facebook by Andy Rassler that due to someone dieing that the son was sending them to be slaughtered in Sugar Creek Subdivision where we walked away from a house...we simply said YES to GOD when HE sung to our hearts "WILL YOU Leave all this behind for I am calling your names... will you let the blinded see... death ears will you open for and through ME...will you kiss lepers clean...will you let ME do all things through you....and you shall never be the same??? 

That was in October 2009 and HE is still carrying us along....and through NEW Songs HE keeps placing in our hearts...HE is calling us to More More More!!   And YES WE LIKE IT WE LIKE IT!

The devil will never like what you or we do for HIM...so don't be shocked, dismayed nor fret when he comes knocking and a blocking in your life and at your door...

When the devil gets into his a blockin mode telling you you cannot COME here...move on....  Don't you GO...but
OPEN YOUR MOUTH...and say...Devil under my feet now and forever in JESUS NAME!!

I'm not going to play your games...  THE WORD of GOD turns this WORLD and HIS WORD is in ME...you Satan have no authority!

So lets you and I choose our words with FAITH and kindness...for while harsh words dry up both the bones of the hearer and the speaker...

Words of Honeycomb... soothe, heal and build relationships that are strong!

And those who cannot or will not choose their words with care....

 REVENGE IS MINE saith THE LORD!

I challenge all these days when you see and hear reports of natural disaster...  Take the time to place the name of the location your are watching it happen...SEARCH the Internet for "SOCIAL HISTORY...of...  Minot ND, New Orleans, and each place you see such disasters...whether floods or droughts...rising rivers or whatever...

You will find that all is GOD's REVENGE on something whether racists bigotry and abuse, idolatry, or financial and or political corruption that a few in power are "Lording it over" HIS Little ones.

If only everyone REALLY CHOSE to live as the Old Coca-Cola Song suggested decades back...
If everyone wanted to and did share with someone else....

When each one rises each morning seeking a new soul to whom to bless in some way some how...

If there were no one who became suspicious when another showed them kindness...Maybe more often more folks would reach out to one another

Okay world...Lets Try...  Sing with me....  Sing Sing a song...make it simple....SING OUT WITH YOUR HEART!!!

LORD YOU LIFT ME UP HIGHER & HIGHER..As I Smile at others...as I seek ways to be a Blessing to all those who YOU place along my trails of trials and challenges...that you always turn into TRIUMPH over tragedy!   Dooddttooototooolooooooo....     I am never blue...'cause LORD I have YOU.... YOU have me...you keep me free indeed   'cause my heart is always kneeling to THEE!!!!

EstherStephanada!

You and I Can Change Our World With Each Word WE Speak One Word At A Time!

Have you ever noticed how you feel when anyone near by opens their mouth and speaks?

Some say they do not believe in GOD nor HIS Holy Word!

They say words are just words or as children you and I heard... "Sticks and Stones may break my bones but words will never harm me!"

This is far from the TRUTH and you can test this TRUTH for your self as you read here!

Today on the way to the grocery or to pick up your son or daughter from maybe their last day of school for this semester or school year...

Did you get victimized by an inpatient shopper in line behind you in the supermarket?
How did their complaints make you feel?  Was it difficult to speak to them kindly? Or did your joyful song turn into complaints back at them?

If you automatically returned their fire with fireballs of your own....
Then you just experienced what you thought was false being disproved in your own speaking and hearing!

If you were able to maintain your joyful song and speak kindly to them blessing them in spite of their angry mood...
Then you my friend have just risen above ordinary men ....

Proving with your chosen Words...to not let a grumpy one make you grumpy but show them how to see things instead of half empty....half full!

PRAISE THE LORD !!

HE Turns the world in HIS Time as we Faithfully lovingly speak HIS WORD!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!