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

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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

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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