PRISON OVERPOPULATION HAS SOCIAL CAUSES, THEREFORE REQUIRES A SOCIAL SOLUTION!

I remember growing up in New Orleans, Louisiana and at a very young age...  5 years old and noticing how many folks were very kind and friendly when they were in certain public places...
   
In shopping malls, grocery stores, schools... in libraries no one had better even utter a word....
     
But whenever I found myself in secluded places with only one or a few...
Sometimes, many folks who I saw in my everyday life seemed to be a different person in private!

Such folks snickered about the poor behind closed doors amongst those who were of the same cloth...same heart and mind!

They were only kind when they were being observed by many forgetful of HIM above who not only sees all that we do and hears all that we say...
  but HE READS HEARTS that are unspoken whether they be pure or they be filled with filth of deceit, jealousy, prejudices, anger unforgiveness and bitterness...

I recall my mother taking me and my two brothers into the big city for both Carrollton and Okeanos Parades...
      
And watching a policeman handcuff and paddle with his baton...   A HOMELESS MAN WHO WAS HUNGRY...
Straggly and had to be cold for he had no coat and Momma had each of us wrapped up with sweaters, hats and scarves and over coats!

The policeman was arresting this hungry tattered homeless man for sneaking/stealing a lucky hot dog from a vendors cart.

How many of those who were raised from their youth amidst violence would not have ever become violent themselves if all mankind had always been compassionate and kind...
         Like the Good Samaritan who took care of the traveler whom he happened upon along his own journey... who had been robbed and beaten and left to die...

Why was that man who snuck the lucky hot dog that turned pout not to be lucky for him...

Why was he left to starve in the first place?  Where were his brothers and sisters who should have lovingly been feeding him good things all along?

They were all there looking on watching both a Mardi Gras Parades and his arrest as entertainment all at the same time!

EstherStephanada & Billy-Jacob here asking you... What are YOU not your church or your Rotary Club doing...

But what are you doing NOW during This Holy Week to alleviate the suffering of another that GOD can draw both you and 
          them more deeply within himself?
      

HAVE YOU EVER BEEN SOMEWHERE...MAYBE A CHURCH WHERE THEY ASKED FOR VOLUNTEERS... AND THEN SHOWED UP AND WAS TOLD THAT EVERYTHING WAS UNDER CONTROL AND THAT YOU WERE NOT NEEDED?

Have you sought oppertunities to serve in hope to share your abilities, talents, and time with and for others...

Just to be told things by clickish folk who act as they own all things...

"We don't need you..go on home we have it all under control?"

Why do you wonder do they bother to have "Ministry Fairs" to get folks involved if they truely do not want others taking part in WHAT IS THEIR JOB?

So many pray asking GOD for many things... help with repairing their home, guiding a son, or even for things such as a washer and dryer?

I have never seen Jesus.. The Father or HIS Spirit float down on a cloud waving keys to new cars, computers, or batteries to opperate gadgets!

What I have seen and I have heard is GOD send us into others lives to fullfill their needs... that they in turn may at same time fill voids in ourselves or still another who too has had his heart upon his knees.

Yet almost each one whom GOD has sent us to..in order to be a blessing, has  turned us away not realizing that they are saying NO TO GOD and choosing for themselves to not recieve or at best postpone the manafestation of what they both have prayed and dreamed of...

For we ask to be blessed with our hands closed into fists which can never receive or bless but only fight and cause pain and suffering!

So when you find that the blessings you long to bestow onto others will not be received... shake their dust and move on and leave them to Our Lord's chastisement or wrath...

But if you are one who is lonely or in any knid of need...
When you choose to always receive each one you meet... greeting them along every street ... http://MeetAndGreetAlongEveryStreet.blogspot.com/

Choosing to be a Blessing to each one giving them Joyful SonShineySmiles along your way... http://freesonshineysmiles.blogspot.com/

Blessings will always chase you down because you made the choice to treat each one as a sister or a brother!
http://YouCanBeAJacobToo.blogspot.com/

And you will never need to look for batteries for HE will keep you filled with HIS POWER, HIS ANNOINTING....

HIS Graces are enough for us always and are new and fresh each morning and each time wecall HIS name...
And each time we receive a new neighbor... a new friend into our homes and hearts!

Blessings!

EstherStephanada!