Lovin Your Sister or Brother, Your Neighbor Who You Meet For A First Time... Is A Way To Ensure That You Are Never Blue!

Greetings Dawlins of ours!!!

We love all of you so so much....we were all created to treat each and everyone with love and compassion...regardless the weather or the others reaction.

Whoever & what ever hovers over you trying to steal HIS joy from you...
Needs not to weigh you down...
For HE has suffered & died that you & I never be in bondage!

The sun of the Son shall shine forever more through anything that makes me or you blue...For when we have HIM & HE has me & you...

There is absolutely not a thing we must do alone.....we need not be strong...

But let HIM who is in you and in me...who longs to free of from all bondage and pain...

HE yearns to take upon HIS own shoulders all that weighs any and all of you, me, and my Puddin Head Precious William...

But HE is a gentleman who will never force HIS will our desire upon us...

We must reach out to HIM ask in trust and actually give our sorrows, fears....our joys and laughter too...

To HIM...

As St Francis says:  Cast your care upon HIM for HE cares for me and you...

So you and we need not fear but remain free indeed in, with & though HIM the only friend who is forever Faithful and never makes mistakes...

 HE knew long before now that this too would come....

And this too shall pass...

And at last...HE will raise us onto HIS Holy Wings of fire and with great love 

HE shall carry us above and upon these clouds of our circumstance...

It is never up to us do do anything but obey and and follow....

We are called to be believers not achievers...

Obedient followers of HIS leadership...

Not the leaders less we shall slip...

Fall and go down into pits laid as traps for us....or even traps and prisons of our own making.

And this is what gives us freedom...
Each one was created in HIS own image with purpose and is needed.

Those who choose to at least act as though that they are so independent that they need no one...are fools!

Arrogant fools who will die & burn among the lost.

Whoever & whatever foils our plans....happens so that HIS commands have the opportunity to trample the enemy again and again Amen!

William's hernia far worse needs surgery...surgical consult scheduled for Wednesday at hospital surgical office where his outside VA oncologist is.

William is believing God, praying for a MIRACULOUS healing of tumor that he not have to undergo the hernia surgery.

I keep saying he must keep Wednesday's appointment since even when God heals...one must go to the doctor to confirm the MIRACLE or risk losing the MIRACLE.

For the Lord has already said many times that HE has no one else to be The Carpenters Friend.
Other carpenters either who have good carpentry skills do not have the right heart to teach inmates and be successful.

I am still washing everything by hand and packing our van with most all of our belongings....except for our mattress so that if the evil one continues to illegally enter there will be nothing of value for them to steal.

The fact that things have been stolen simply proves that we cannot put God to the test that they could find papers with personal information whether medical, social Security....whatever...

So packing everything but our mattress is simply preparing to embrace tent camping still again on November 30, 2013.

Would be wonderful for one of you who own a camping trailer or RV that you do not use or need...
To a Vietnam Veteran who is suffering...Agent Orange to live in with his wife to be more comfortable....

You can text William at 985-415-5694.
Or send a donation to the PO Box address bellow.

William needs help in the bathroom, dressing etc....not because of the tumor which is improved...but the hernia which he would not have had he allowed me to do our lifting and carrying on Art Stroll Day October 5, 2013.

He simply likes to pitch in and does not like being waited upon always.

Each of you....each of you are so so precious....precious... precious!

Whether you are among the few here in the United States who have chosen to receive our hearts within yours...or if you are among  the many in different parts of Europe, Asia... India or Africa...or upon islands or any where around this earth who have loved us for years over the Internet...

Or possibly you have found us for the first time now...
We hope you will use Friend Connect & become a FOLLOWER!

Love & Blessings to you!

Lets never get discouraged but instead encourage one another...our sisters and brothers...

Let us never compete with our friend, sister or brother...

But instead seek to assist our friend along his our her journey...

Making our own journeys a shared journey...

For it is not about getting to a finish line first...

But making certain that we go through the narrow gates with care together that not one trips without being lifted up and carried upon our shoulders...

For we are to be imitators of HIM Jesus Christ.

We are not to be seeking to be the first to finish...but to bring with us many souls along with us who also cross the finish line safely & securely through the narrow gate to salvation in heaven forever together forever.

Let not one be lost....imitate HIM HE already paid the cost that you and I need not be the best...but the last to cross the finish line after making certain that each one whom HE has given us...placed on our path needy of friendship, love, compassion or any good physical or spiritual thing...

Sing Sing Sing....New songs of joy & thanksgiving and all living will therefore be full filling our hearts and HIS plans for all to eternity.

Amen Amen Amen....dear friends!

EstherStephanada!

All mail sent to Ponchatoula is already being forwarded to Madisonville address bellow even though we are not in the park till the 30th of November and this is because our Ponchatoula PO Box expired on October 31, 2013.

www,TheCarpentersFriend.com 

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1175

Madisonville LA 70447

The Fruit of the Poison of Men Not Tithing & Giving Generous Offerings Is The Loss And Confusion of Their Children

The only reason many wives and mothers have had to embrace working outside the home as employees for a pay check is sin of their husbands...fathers of their children.

 

In some families this sin is more serious than in others.

 

However in many families the sin that brings their entire family into ruin is their failure to honor God in HIS Holy Sanctuary and with-holding his 10% tithe which belongs to the Lord.

Malachi  3:10 which teaches us 10% belongs to the Lord and what we give over this 10% that God multiplies 30, 60 80 100 fold and far more....infinitely more than we can ask think dream or imagine.

 

Then after wives go into the work place because their husband father who refuse to honor God with their hearts and by holding his tithes and offerings...

The most innocent become victims.

 

Their children are left alone as latch key children to find their own way among other youth their peers who likewise if their parents are physically in their home...

They are not spiritually emotionally nor mentally present to their own children.

 

They come home tired from their jobs and give their children orders to follow and carry out...bring me my.....whatever...and have you done your homework and how about your chores...why are there dirty dishes in the sink and....

 

I find it sad and intriguing how many Catholics manage to be hired in employment positions of honor such as teachers in Catholic Schools...paid church leaders of many kinds directing the youth of others...but their own teen age sons and daughters struggles they are oblivious to because since when they come home they are tired and used up...

 

Their own sons & daughters lack the relationship with their own mothers and fathers that they so much hunger for and deserve.

 

And if the mothers never had to leave the family home for employment the mother & father would have stronger marital relationship with each other...

And both would have stronger relationships with their own children.

 

Whoever you are where ever you are...if you have lost touch with your own sons & daughters for whatever reason....

Today take the time to drop in on your teenage son or daughter unexpectedly...maybe go shopping at his or her place of employment ...

Surprise him our her with your smiling loving heart and maybe a small gift just to say  "I love you".

 

Maybe to you can open a Facebook and send them a friend request...and get involved mentally, emotionally and spiritually in their lives.

 

Sure some youth will not allow their mothers and fathers into their hearts...some will as 11Timothy Chapter 3 prophesies will divide their mothers and fathers and we whose adult children may fall in this category...we must continue to pray for our children but cannot give them or anyone power over us....we cannot give into anyone's impure choices.

 

But love the sinner without condoning the sin.

 

And even if we cannot immediately see the fruit of our gestures... reaching out to our own & our neighbors young ones will always have a positive affect in their lives and the lives who see what you say and do....for there is always unexpected monkeys observing me and you!

 

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

 

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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

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Expect You 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

Even Some Catholics are confused about Pro-Life / Pro-choice ...Abortion.

It is one of the greatest fallacies believed to be truth today...that the unborn have no value.

And it becomes so easy once convinced that this lie is truth to discount all other life truths and moral values once life itself is deemed worthless.

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.

Every person has value....

Every person has ability to bring positive change in their own life and the lives of many but only after you or I convince one who thinks he or she is "Never Needed" that he or she has gifts valuable to share.

When you & I encourage anyone who is blue to step out and be a voice to another who is still stagnant in the old shoes that you yourself once wore...

Try inviting such a person to join you one day on a mission...whether to join you as you visit an old folks nursing home where residents are always hungry for love...or an orphanage where children have been left & forgotten...

Certainly when anyone who mistakenly thinks they have no value enters such a place and greets kindly one of these...

The love that will immediately be exchanged will transform the mind and heart who had so erroneously believed that he or she could not ever have purpose to realize that everyone can make a difference...

Some just need an invitation in order to see how!

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

We Can Fill Others Needs With Smiling Hearts And We All Can Receive MIRACLES and Be Vessels Through Which God Grants MIRACLES to Others And If We Do Not Choose To Be We Too Will Become One Who Is REALLY Not Needed!

We can be either a curse or a blessing to others and ourselves at the same time!

Our choices always matter and our choices can tear down or build both a good life for others and ourselves at the same time.

When we were born, created uniquely in God's own image...within us was planted the desire and ability to love and be loved....the ability to reach out with genuine kindness or instead retaliate with hatefulness that will in turn eventually isolate ourselves....for how many toughies will pair up with another toughy no different than themselves.

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.

And an entire town can actually become obsolete when its members are harsh to visitors and to those visitors that try to make their town their home and to be a contributing citizen and not just a a rock along their road..

Now city or town can grow without newcomers moving in and becoming involved.

Because as quickly as a new baby is born into each native family one who has ran their race to completion regardless whether they chose the better road and arrived in their heavenly home or beneath the earth wailing and grinding their teeth...still the population of their city or town does not change nor increase, but trades one life for another while God's best who HE leads there they hold back & push away.

So soon and very soon...Proud towns and cities will die off...because they were not willing to welcome newcomers into their hearts....for no one needs to make a way to travel to a place where they will not be received.

And so complete towns and cities will become places no one needs to even bother to see.

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

It's Time For All Adult Men & Women to Engage or Take Interest Spending Time With Their Own Teenagers....and Their Teenage Neighbors!

Now that school is letting out this week through out our country & worldwide,
children and particularly teenagers will be very bored.

When youth of most any age lack structure to their day, and have no one giving them attention, a potentially dangerous environment develops in that such youth often get into trouble far over their heads as they try to create their own entertainment and try to "get themselves noticed" to fill their empty void of loneliness.

So all of you "big people" as children & youth see or call adults...whether you have your own flesh & blood children or grandchildren...or have not...

Now is the time to adopt with your heart a child or youth in your community who seems to not have friends, or his our her parents are too busy for them.

And those of you who are retired and no longer have full time responsibilities...
Invite such teenagers or youth to join you for fun this summer whether you paint things with water colors...
Make popcorn and put www.EWTN.com on the Television while you play fun games with them.

Or simply go walking with them through your neighborhoods asking them about their interests and giving them direction to safely pursue their interests...you will be being an Esther or a Jacob too to them & for your entire community for because you took the time to care...they will not get into trouble that would harm not just themselves, but the entire community!

No need to be blue...just be an Esther or a Jacob too!

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EstherStephanada!

Poor Choices of Others on Ocassions Must Influence Our Choices: Fwd: Suspect in Ponchatoula death caught, wounded - FOX 8 WVUE New Orleans News, Weather, Sports

It is sad that this has happened.  And obviously this teen was mixed up with problems long ago within himself that sadly no one close to him either cared enough about him to lead him, befriend him long ago.

 

While we do not personally know either the family of the victim nor the 18 year old gunman, we grieve personally not only because the City of Ponchatoula is small enough that I think it is just about impossible to live here & have never at least greeted with a smile in passing along Downtown sidewalks or saying "Good morning" or exchange a cordial smile in grocery store with every member in this community at sometime or other.

 

Combine this that that this crime as many crimes was at least in part motivated or accelerated through Facebook before it was committed...with the fact my husband, The Carpenters Friend, who yearns to teach non-violent inmates Vocational Carpentry, has often been mis-represented...many erroneously think that we seek to rehabilitate hardened criminals...

 

This is false.

 

My husband will never go into classrooms with violent criminals such as this young teenager.

 

Had William met & known the family many years ago possibly if he had the same opportunity he had once in Connecticut when a church member's son after a break up with a girl friend or maybe she never would go out with him at all...

 

The teen like one of my brothers when he was turned down the first time he ever asked a girl for a date desired to kill himself

 

William knowing the boys father & entire family offered the teenage boy a job for at the time William owned a company that had enough business that he could take on a new employee.

 

William by taking personal interest in this teen over 3 decades ago...taking him to breakfast before work each day and not reading the paper while at the table but engaging in conversation letting him know that his interests, his goals and well being were and are important to him...

 

This young boy made a drastic turn in his outlook on life..

He opened up to my husband who was not my husband then...going back years in Williams memory before we met.

William simply paying him to sweep the wood shop daily after school &  teaching him carpentry and giving him direction...put hope in him.

 

And this family was saved from being broken.

 

I cannot say what this youth's life was like, what caused his inner problems that  this became the sad out come.

 

But this opens & proves that sadly most families today have at least one member who is out of touch out of sinc with the rest of the family who feels "They are not really part of the family" for whatever reason they feel inferior they do.

 

And it is these who are susceptible to fall into drugs and even tougher gangs and troubles.

 

Let us not only be prayerful for these wounded families here in Ponchatoula, but let us be vigilant and notice when one person especially youth may not be getting the attention he or she needs...and let us be the one who tries to be a friend to take interest.

 

God will always reward us...God will always make us more productive to multiply our time...God will never allow our own family to suffer when we invite someone else's lost child to join our own children & ourselves...

 

God always blesses the gesture of caring hearts...Let us care for our neighbors with acts of kindness.

 

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Date: Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 9:34 AM
Subject: Suspect in Ponchatoula death caught, wounded - FOX 8 WVUE New Orleans News, Weather, Sports

http://www.fox8live.com/story/22064162/first-degree-murder-warrant-issued-for-ponchatoula-man-search-continues#.UXqQSvn__Mo.gmail

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

Stephanie Gustavson's invitation is awaiting your response

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Often Those Who Where Too Little Clothes Exposing That Which Should Remain Private...

These Persons with inside themselves feel unworthy of love...
Because they have never been loved...

They eroneously think:  "If maybe...just maybe if I start showing off more of my skin...
Wear tight fitting clothes up the crack of my behind so that when I bow to my  King of all kings...
SOMEONE Will FINALLY Notice me!

They get noticed alright....
But those men who try to live holy lives run fast the other way...
For when their eyes are caught by such revealing clothing...their hearts & minds must push away that which tries to defile their consciences.

When will these women and some men who dress as such that ever curvature of their privates shapes are revealed yet covered..
Wake up to the revelation that they offend the God and their worship becomes empty and vain and garners them not what they go to church to seek out....

Each and everyone was created with dignity by God for Himself and interesting it is that denim jeans that are so popular...
Were made famous by a family of priests called: "Levi-Strauss!"

Simply read the scriptures...start with Leviticus and don't stop there.
Why does it surprise you that high priests made fortunes by selling sinful products?

It is like the land owners wicked servant who knew he was going to be caught and so made a welcomed place for himself by cancelling their debts to his master behind his back just before he was fired.

There are many in this life who seek others wives....inappropriately even if just for a one moment fling...
Like the man last night who grabbed at me as my husband mistakingly walked before me instead of behind me that he could see not only me but any males who take advantage of circumstance...

That is right...last night after Stations of the Cross the last Friday before Palm Sunday March 22, 2013 a male grabbed me as I dipped my hand into the bowl of Blessed waters to spirtually cover myself with again with HIS Holy Cross that saves & raises up not those who intentionally sin against others as he did.

How can a man expect to clean up his life and receive indulgences and blessings fromm above through pious acts....
And go after anothers wife even before exiting HIS Holy Sanctuary?

He eroneously thinks he is defiling me...
But when you like I know God's Holy Word inside and out for HE Himself engraved upon our hearts..
So that we can recognize the fool who physically goes through religious motions to be seen by men...
But his heart within makes God the Father....VOMMIT!

Only words from my own mouth & yours can defile...
How can anything our Lord Jesus endured such as beatings, false roumers and lies....slaps or attacks...
impede or defile...
But in actuality those who choose to hurt me thinking they bwill make me impure that God cannot work through us anymore...

They actually promote us...for God raises us...
HE drops HIS angels from the sky...
Saints Michael & Gabriel and Jesus Himself have been seen to appear sheild us from their vehicles the drive with VENOM towards us!

Their arrows that fly by day...
Will be bent and stab themselves...
For those who play with fire always get burned sooner or later...

Those who live by the sword will die & perish by the same swords they use to slaughter or slander...
No one needs a friend who refuses to live respectfully.

And those who choose to dress modestly and remain pure will discover that eventually they will when they are not searching for friends...

That others who live pure and simple lives in union with God and not concerning oneself with what others think...will find you...and you will never be blue....and full fill that which HE created you to be....free indeed with your heart kneeling...always kneeeling!

Amen

When One Recognizes That His or Her Wrongful Judgement and Poor Choice of Actions Not Only Caused Pain But Pushed Away What They Most Desire...They...Maybe Even You Can Make The Best Choice And Suffer Only The Embarrassment of Confession and Receive Friendships & Relationship With God Restored!

Anything one values...whether be relationship with their children whom they have neglected or abused whether on purpose...

Possibly your parents in the name of "discipline" or "teaching you a lesson" would always do so with radical means which never taught you...certainly did not teach me anything but how to be tougher to endure even worse abuse until one is of age, moves on to...  "A BETTER LIFE WITHOUT ONES PARENTS?"

 

The trouble here is that when neither side cares to become clean through making a complete Sacramental Confession going back whether only months or years...

If the guilty merely says to their son or daughter...parent, neighbor who ever they have taken advantage of persistently...or maybe this was your first offense...

"I'm sorry...honor me & come home!" but never become clean before Almighty God...

 

The compounded sins they still must keep lieing to conceal and so no relationship can ever form and be real...

Who can trust and love a pathological liar?

 

Only in God will any soul find rest....for Only God can no man woman or child fool or convince with well told lies!

 

Regardless how "Adorable" a friend...

Regardless what a "Gem" a "Julie" of a Priceless Pearly kind smiles on the outside.....

Lies & sins of any kind...not just breaking and entering...but even illegally entering a friend or neighbors home..

But all forms of dishonesty and hate eventually catches up to anyone whose mind and heart is full of jealous and impure desires that foster hate to grow within when another refuses to indulge with them in sinfulness and then in embarrassment they feel need to hide!

 

What happens when a humble man pure of heart chooses to close his window blinds and not indulge in real life sex shows outside his window but simply closes the blinds.

 

Does the beauty queen sex godess princess seek out another married man's window to perform before almost nude like she did before....

Does she then force her way into their lives....

Does he & his wife simply close the blinds and allow God to lead them to a new place to be saddened again by folks who just like the last neighbors to whom we gave our hearts in love...

History has a way of repeating itself....

 

Different city, different address...different people....same old patterns of others not having basic respect and pushing away what they most desire...our friendship.

 

God has seen all that each of us do and what each has done or failed to do.

God is the only mind & heart reader knowing ones thoughts before they think them.

 

You and all persons can choose to never be included...to always be on the short end of every stick which is very lonely...nothing is more bitter than the loneliness that is self inflicted by ones own poison of poor acts of hate or aggression towards innocent.

 

Or instead, at this very moment you can pick up the telephone and call your priest and go make a Sacramental Confession...be washed clean....sin no more & go apologize to those you have harmed not with just words, but put your money where your confessing mouth is and make restitution for your crimes to the ones you have harmed.

 

The Carpenters Friend 501(C)(3) exists for the sole purpose of leading such young ones away from darkness that cause them to commit crimes and to implement carpentry vocational programs in jails and state prisons.  These inmates typically have this sort of background....they desired love but knew not where or how to receive it.

 

You can make your Tax Deductible Contribution today at any Iberia Bank or Fifth Third Bank today.

 

God will reward you!

 

The Carpenters Friend prays for all who support our work which is ultimately HIS work!

 

Amen!