Even Some Catholics are Confused About Pro-Life / Pro-Choice ...Abortion.

I was wearing  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 Holt 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...now is the time...to choose on purpose which group you will be among...

You will be herded with the sheep into heaven or with the goats into the eternal flames.

The choice is yours for the silent ones who are not hot or called will be lost to the eternal fiery flames of HELL!

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

No One Has The Right to Snuff Out Life! Each Life Has Purpose!

Each life is significant, created by God for a unique purpose with unique gifts to accomplish that which God Himself has both has made great plans for...to use in conjunction of other lives for the good of multitudes...

And when even one life is cut short of God's plans...all not just the one terminated through a conscious choice is affected by even one such poor choice or decision.

Let your voice be one who encourages lovingly those who many to most either forget about, become marginalized, or forgotten.

Let your voice be heard today by writing your CCongressional & Senate representatives.
You can right now follow this link:  www.opencongress.org/ and find your own senators & representatives and write them a message that you are against all kinds of killing whether legal injection, execution, euthanasia, and abortion.

Take the time to voice what you believe in and what how you will vote in the next election  if they do or do not do...what.

Most people think that far more people write their Senators & Representatives in Congress than the number who really do.

And though these forms sent out to multitudes to sign have some affect...
Personal letters from citizens on specific issues always have greatest influence.

So either follow these links or go straight to your State's website & do it now!

You can find them easily by just typing their names in the search box at: www.GoodSearch.org
And if you do not already have a Good Sense account, set up one right now and choose: 
Carpenters Friend  as your non-profit cause to support.

You will be an Esther or a Jacob too when you do these things you will make a difference for many...
Hope for those who were once hopeless one life at a time protected because you took the time to actively care...

God will repay you!

Amen Amen and Alleluia!

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

When The Enemy Seeks to Attack the Babe of Thy Womb...You Can Bet That God Is About to Move Mountains....SOooooooooooooooooooooo Faint Not!

The enemy of God knows well the plans God has made for you before HE
conceived you within your mothers womb....or another babe ever formed within the womb of your very own growing within you now...

Your mother was pro-life and not pro-choice...so who are you to turn your
back on the God of your mother & father who bore you?

Who brought you to this point out of the darkness where you once were?  Not the
devil for sure...

For the king of darkness does his wicked deeds in the dark to not be seen.
And out of light comes life...darkness has no part within....

For light dispels darkness....but darkness cannot ever dispel light...
Bushell baskets come not only in woven structures but in attitudes and
choices of mankind.

We can choose to be illuminated by HIS light which is Himself...and if we
shun the light and chose darkness it is only time before our life fizzles
out.

So never become unglued when expecting a child you never had planned.  And
even if like me you were once forced upon by an inappropriate male.

I said male, not man!

For men have respect not only for themselves and God...but overpowering a
women brings one-self far down into the disgust of sin that only grows more
gruesome as darkness remains due to our choices to keep HIS Light out

Repentance within the sacrament of reconciliation instituted by Jesus
Christ...authority handed own through Saint Peter through Popes, Cardinals
and Bishops to priests...whom you can call and make an appointment to meet
& greet and be brought back into Holy Mother Church....right now!

Forgiveness, healing and all that is good is God's best part that is always
waiting for you!

Amen Amen Amen!

Regardless What An Expectant Mother Must Endure To Bare A Healthy Son or Daughter...

Whether a woman is happily married to a loving supportive husband;
Whether she somehow got caught up in a fast moving relationship and wish she had not;
Whether she has married him..
 Even if she has been a victim of rape and finds herself seeming alone with a son or daughter in her womb...

She can carry her child to term with the support of Almighty God and HIS Holy Church.
For today though there exist many enemies of God...the obvious ones who have always existed in every modern society and culture every where on earth.

A woman who bravely caries her baby to term and gives birth enduring the public scrutiny of the wicked  seated in high places of authority can not be trusted...

Such a woman is to be praised.  Certainly defended as Jesus Himself said "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone and not one remained to condemn her and HE too said nor do I condemn you....  Go forth and sin no more."

Our own mother's when each of us were children always said as she refereed between her own children:  "Two wrongs don't make a right!"

Jesus told us to be weary of those who seateth themselves in high places and wear fine robes of purple authority.

Today many of these same flakey folks wear cloaks of black in court rooms as well...
Jesus also taught us how to live in an unjust society with unjust officials.

Jesus Himself taught us how to not let the wickedness of others scare us.

HE Himself will be our justification against false accusation and our warrant against arrest.

So regardless to who you are, where on earth you live...
Whether in Nigeria Africa, Concord or Kannapolis North Carolina....San Francisco California...or anywhere in between in either direction north...south east or west...

Our Lord Himself is with you & with us who never do anything against HIM...who honor HIM through kindness, gentleness, compassion for not just the sick but for each person they meet and greet along every street...even the condemned, the down trodden, those in prison.

Those who honor God with not just their mouth publicly in synagogues, Catholic & Protestant Churches, those who take the risk to speak up for one wrongfully accused...or friend one who is despised because he or she will not compromise his or her morals and sin against God to be accepted in the flakey hypocritical Parish Council Church force...

Know my husband & I and many others you may never meet before Jesus returns soon and very soon are praying for you right now and the Lord Himself will enter with you into every public and private place from your own home if even only a tent in the park...an apartment amongst many where evil people have keys to your dwelling.

HE is your rock, your fortress...let not evil worry you!

For HE who is in you has over come the world and HE will entrap the wicked with their own devices set for you.

So never be blue but wear blue instead...
From the moment you wake and rise from your bed....or from your pallet of blankets or even hay.
Each morning sing new songs of Joy to HIM.

You need not let even a tax collector, attorney, or judge scare you...for perfect love casts out all fear...
So you & I who walk in love & forgiveness at all times have nothing to fear,  simply relax into the Lord at all times and let HIM defend you!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

  

I Was The One That Played My Own Tune And Danced To It!

I always stuck out amongst any kind of crowd without trying, and naturally, I did not always realize when folks were laughing at me unkindly...

No, I would take a bow or curtsy with a smile and a song in my heart...or even snap my fingers!

I never noticed that I was out of step from the rest...Nope.. I learned well from My GOD My GOD My GOD....Sometimes doing my own thing was a good thing...

Besides, I did not need my mother's help to make different from all the rest!

For Sugar Daddy, GOD Almighty...HIS SON, and HIS Most Holy Spirit taught me themselves....

That THEY set me apart from the rest!

Momma made me wear white shoes because she refused to buy another pair of shoes and she refused to dye these black because Easter had not yet come and gone...

So my dancing to HIS tune instead of theirs put me in the bright lights for real!

Yes the teacher and other girls and their families were mad at me.... I was totally oblivious...
What did I ever do to you I declared!

They would wave their fingers at me and though I would hurt in my heart not because I understood any of it at all... I just knew they did not like me our themselves so it seemed....

For Sugar Daddy said: "Don't mind them....They are just JEALOUS!"

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH And So I danced and whistled even a better new and different tune...
I remained In Step With & In HIM and HE with & In ME...

And HE Calls you and each one to do the same!!

Amen Amen Amen & Alleluia!

EstherStephanada!