MY BILLY & ME HAVE A SMILE & A SONG FOR EVERYONE & LOOK WHAT HE RECEIVED!!!

Friday, July 12, 2019

Sealed some painted floors

Greetings....Good God bless you dear friends. 

It's the new day our sweet Lord  has made...so we can meet and greet in his Holy Name.

An update on my floor project.

Many of you already know because you've been here before, or you have seen the photographs of my first year here in my home.

All of my wood floors for carpeted new before they put this house on the market and that was to hide a flood that took place in this house not from storms what from their own Plumbing.

The house was full of toxic mold when I purchased it but I didn't know it until after the closing and I was living in it.

And it was after I spread the Blessed salt with my faith, the night before the feast of Saint Francis in October of 2015, that I removed the carpet to expose the dead mold, mold Good God killed in my sleep..

Back when I painted omeros on my walls I was in physical therapy three mornings a week. And my physical therapist pressed me now Stephanie you know what I'm doing is not going to be doing much good if you're doing all of these projects in jobs.

But Richard you know the surfaces of the walls and so forth are not cleanable unless they're painted and I won't ever ever be healthy if I don't do it because there's no one else to do it. 

He agreed with me on that and said we'll just have to work on it together to get you through it.

But after Lions Club split their payment, and I was abused by two different optometrists in two different facilities, suddenly I couldn't go to any kind of medical facility safely because everyone is friends of one of the optometrists or one of the optometrists family members. 

So I could not get the referrals that my physical therapist could get paid by my insurance and all any of this means is that it puts me in a position to receive even more and greater miracles from good God.


Because when the normal avenues to accomplish any life need, gets blocked, we who live for him, strictly obedient to his written word and to his instructions to our personal hearts...he must perform for us who place his trust in us, or he ceases to be himself.

Because he is mercy and healing itself.  And unless he builds my house,  and your house, we labor in vain.   I labor in vain.

He can never deny himself.

And so I desire to paint the floor when I painted the murals on the walls but I knew that at that time I was not capable of moving a shifting all of the furniture around to accomplish it.


But I am outside on my porch inner rocker waiting for the Thompson's clear sealer to dry.

A couple of heavier pieces in one corner I shifted onto blankets just this morning and drag them onto the porch pulling the blankets.

Where these pieces were the floor was not painted.

So I painted this corner before I started putting the clear sealer onto the floor from the opposite end where it had been dry for days.

I was surprised the paint in that corner was not dry to seal and so I'll have to seal that corner when the rest of the floor is dry enough to walk on the instructions say dry it with a towel after 10 minutes.

If I remember my husband using this same product to seal wood floors in a house we bought in North Carolina when we first moved in. 

He hired professional floor sanders to sand the floors because they knock it out real fast.


But together my precious William and I cleaned up all of the sawdust and my precious husband sealed the floors before we moved anything into the living area upstairs. All the floors upstairs were Hardwood. But we had a walkout basement that had a concrete floor and we had our bed set up there and Essentials set up downstairs to sleep there until certain things were absolutely complete upstairs.

Specifically of the floors. I remember my husband put two coats of this stuff on the floors. And I specifically remember that he did not use a towel minutes after like it says to on the can.

After the first coat we let it dry for more than a day.

And then he did a second coat, allowed it to harden three days before we began moving anything up there.

When I first sat on the porch it was really hot I put one of the fans on and it really feels comfortable now and I believe I kind of forgot about how long how many minutes it's been since I worked my way out of the house.


Look at some of the photos. Certainly I have a lot more work to do some pieces I could not move yet and so there are areas that need to be painted and sealed at another time. I intend on doing the entire house.

I did not want to purchase any paint special for the floors but use what I already have.

And I wanted my floors to have a feeling of life no different than the murals throughout my house.   So grasses and restful healing waters of baptism.

Take a look. 

Peace and Blessings to each of you. 


Stephanie/ Mom/Mum/Ma



Saturday, February 1, 2014

Fwd: How to use your Good Search act & teach your friends to do the same.


Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1175
Madisonville, LA 70447
       USA




Greetings Friends,

God Bless you!

After opening your good search account did you choose your charity yet?

Before you search or surf the web for anything....make :   www.goodsearch.com your home page on all devices you use on the Internet.

Always first sign into your good search act before you go to any other website.

To benefit us you after signing in.....must look on the home page where it says:  Choose your Charity   or choose your beneficiary or non profit...  

 Please type the words:   Carpenters Friend.

Then every time after your charity is chosen or set....always do your web searching signed in and type subject you are searching in the "Good Search search window where usually there is a magnifying glass on the right edge of and touch : enter as you would searching on any  other.

You will see the good search say that you just earned:    .01 cents for Carpenters Friend.

Teach anyone connected to you on the Internet to do this for us please Son Austin and we will benefit for the sake of teaching non-violent prisoners...inmates  carpentry that they may earn their bread and steal no more.

You can forward this email to everyone you have in your contact list with your own personal message.

God has begun MIRACULOUS healing in Dad because God needs Dad.... William to be HIS Carpenters Friend for no other carpenter who belongs to God has the heart to be "The Carpenters Friend."

Many erroneously think William, Dad & I want to rehabilitate hardened killers...not true.

We seek to teach those who are non-violent who possibly in on their first or second drug charge but have never harmed people or done anything violent and today in The United States this accounts for the majority who are incarcerated.

So keep praying healing into Dad.

And as our friends use Good Search with us as beneficiary we will have the income for William to implement programs in prisons through the Internet and in person....Amen Amen.


Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1175
Madisonville, LA 70447
       USA

Friday, January 17, 2014

In Every Situation in Life God Promises HIS Best....But Do You & I Have The Strength...The Faith Not To Settle or Accept Less?

In the lives of each Christian believer when we pray for any good thing ....even those things which God's Holy Written Word promises we always must wait upon the Lord...
 
In HIS perfect timing that does not always feel like ours.
 
And when God blesses HE adds no sorrow.
 
In these last few days my brother whom God did not restore to me & my husband after many years of separation after I believed my father's intimidation when he said:  "And don't be bothering your brother or Lisa...they are just as sick and tired of you & your loser husband as us and the rest of the family" I believed my father and never called my brother and sister in law during my husband's first battle with Agent Orange GIST tumor.   I cut off the entire family then after having only called them for a first time since cutting them all off following the 911 bombing attacks on The United States September 11, 2001 which brought back the Vietnam War for a period in my husband.
 
William and I were trying to buy a house of our own.  A place where it would be far easier to be healthier in a residential middle class neighborhood for our first time in almost 17 years of marriage....Both homes we had a mortgage on...our own which we lived in during different time periods were in drug infested hostile neighborhoods.
 
This will...I say will...because even though we were not able to qualify for this on our own...and although my brother offered to buy it and rent it to us until we could get credit scores up and buy it on our own...
 
We will not settle for less than God's best.
 
We will not pay rent under terms of control of anyone.... particularly not place ourselves under the same bondage God released me from on May 30, 1997 when William Gustavson took me as his bride & wife forever.
 
This would not be receiving God's best even if the very house God has planned, set aside for William & I to make us prosper there...
 
For When God Blesses HE adds no sorrow and so William & I have found still another temporary residence as we not accept the devils offer of less than God's best:   A home that not only meets all of our needs...but is infinitely better than we could ask think dream or imagine that will be received paid for in full without any strings attached like on a kite that flies high in the air controlling direction and inhibiting or limiting the heights it can climb....
 
I wrote my brother a very long letter because he is my biological brother and I will always love my parents and both of my brothers, nephews....my son our grandchildren and sister in law...but we will never give them or anyone position of authoritative power or control over us...for this is not love but cohesion....I explained that I will never place myself & my husband in the position that we must again be the brunt of my father's coarse harshness nor his self-righteous attitudes that stem from the fact he still today holds his mother...my grandmother and God mother Josephine accountable in her grave for having left him & his sister Joan Carroll Cruz...as she sought to free herself and her children of her alcoholic abusing husband their father....  Big Dan Senior.
 
See I look exactly like Josephine and it was not until shortly after William & I married my mother said to me when I was telling her about another...most recent at that time...explosion of my father knocking me in my face in anger....
 
She said:  Stephanie it is a shame you cannot remember when you were very small your father was very tender to you.  It was when you started looking like a woman he changed."    "What does that mean Momma...was I supposed to stay his baby doll forever and not grow up?"    She replied and actually began crying as she said:  "Don't you get it?  When he hits you..he hits his mother Josephine who left him....you look just like Josephine.!"
 
My father also does not like reminiscing about any places he brought me or me with my brothers and mother because when a man lives 60 years with compounded unconfessed, unforgiven, unabsolved sin....he remembers not just the good parts of memories...but he remembers that he never once in my life time ever was with me that he did not hurt me in some way...
 
Whether with unexpected anger he could not or would not control...or harsh critical cold words...he like anyone else who suffers from swallowing lies of the devil that have kept them out of the sacramental confessional for years to a life time....
They become a chronic liar to hide their previous sins.
 
So why would William & I accept a home under these kinds of terms to be forced into relationship within such a family that condones such behavior and manipulates with money.
 
When one gives when one loves it must be freely given and freely received...not expecting anything more than love returned.
 
So I explained these spiritual truths to my brother in a letter directly telling him no thank you...we will not accept his offer because we will wait upon our Lord a little longer.
 
God will give us what HE has promised with no strings attached.
 
We have taken again temporary shelter which I told my brother as I tell all now...if my father or mother or even now my brother seek to track me...us down again....like after my William told my father in  2012 where we were then living thinking he had mellowed enough in old age that we no longer need to hide as much from him....My father's words spoken with hostility in his voice were:    "SO THAT'S WHERE YOU'VE BEEN HIDING HER!"   My father is a Korean War Veteran and was on the Battleship Iowa.
 
Just as all Military Servicemen...whether they enlisted or were drafted if they had any physical or mental defects whether a curved spine, flat feet Bipolar illness...prostrate problems....mental illness of any kind they were not accepted into whatever branch of the military that they were applying or were being drafted into.
 
And so my father could not have had his Bipolar problem of inflaming quickly without anyone knowing what bothered him...before he entered the United States Navy or later the Merchant Marines.   And this is the key piece of knowledge for any descendant of a former military soldier, airman....or sailor...Do not assume that you were not exposed to harmful permanent  sickness causing agents because you never saw with your eyes Agent Orange Smoke or never saw or handled with your own hands knowingly hazardous materials.
 
Our Government has lied to all American Citizens dating back long before any humans alive today were born.  It is called:  "POLITICS."
 
Never settle for less than God's best as William & I also sent the Realtors involved an electronic letter...short note telling them to place back on the open market....it has been for sale over two years....so when God opens the heavens as promised do not be surprised if we walk into your office....one day maybe next month...with a cashiers check for the full amount we had offered drawn on our own money.
 
God makes a way where there is no way...but we must be careful to recognize the offer from God's enemy that will always come very soon before God's abundant promise to me and to you....
 
One last ditch effort to prevent God's obedient ones from enjoying God's best for them.
 
So pray with me....let us pray for each other sisters and brothers...that each of us recognize as we did this time....when an offer is God's promise twisted....and tied up with strings....not favorite things...but strings that bind and cause pain, agony and sorrow...
Let us never borrow even from a "Blood Relative" or brother... For as scripture says:  "The borrower is always a slave to the lender."
 
Wait just a little while longer in HIM with HIM and Through HIM....for HIS better and best part as we are!
 
Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!
 
EstherStephanada!
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1175
Madisonville, LA 70447
       USA

Friday, December 27, 2013

Christmas Time is Difficult for Many....And All Though Ours Too Did Not Pass Without Bumps or Bruises....

Christmas Time is Difficult for Many....And All Though Ours Too Did Not Pass Without Bumps or Bruises....
 
And your Christmas may have too...come along more swiftly than you would have preferred bringing visits that might not have been pleasant.
 
You and I if not careful...can allow the enemy of God to steal from us the pearl hidden within the tough hard oyster shell of attitudes that lack gratitude and have never truly loved before....
Life can be harsh for many no matter what time of year it is or where they must be on any particular date.
 
Jealous resentful ones raise their heads high with their sharp critical judgemental tongues every chance they get at us almost every where we go anytime of the year...a true Christian who shakes the dust of the unrighteous off him or herself frequently moving on...to the next church...the next town as Jesus instructed HIS apostles...go into each town blessing the house of the first person you meet and if they receive your blessing stay there do not move from house to house...your blessing will remain upon them forever.
 
But if they do not receive you...shake their dust as a testament against them..and go forth to the next town...the next church...
 
To the next place do not carry the bitterness, resentfulness or jealousy of those who reject you...remember they hated Jesus Christ Himself long before you or I were ever born....
 
And Jesus said:  "If they hate me they will hate you."   so why then would you or I ever base our happiness upon being accepted by someone who knows not how to love or let others love them???
 
 
Over our Christmas....we endured such from biological family members of mine who you would expect to be happy for us.
 
But my William & refuse to get into a contest with anyone....we simply walked away again rejoicing that we made a best effort returning to my parents home after having not been there in a very long time....and that at least my brother and sister in law are back in our lives.
 
None of us can make the choices of any other person but only ourselves.
 
Lets not set ourselves up for serious disappointment by raising expectations that are dependent upon other people and not controlled by ourselves and God alone.
 
For people will almost always disappoint because few people have the same goals, the same priorities and the same motivation.
 
And when any time you base your happiness on certain people agreeing with you, or certain people liking you or even more deadly and damaging to yourself....basing your happiness upon certain people truly loving you...regardless who they are...even if sadly someone who should love you the most and be the happiest for you...and never jealous at all....
 
You set yourself up to never find joy or happiness in your entire life.
 
For the Holy Scripture defines love in the Book of Corinthians this way:  "Love is patient; love is kind; it never puts on aires....it is never self seeking."
 
Scripture also says that when we bless others....give alms we are not to let our left hand know what the right is doing.
 
This does not mean that when we give that we should never expect a return...but rather we cannot give expecting a specific return....this is not giving nor loving but is defined as a "Purchase."
 
But some people when they give or help someone...often their own family member particularly an adult child of their own flesh...biological son or daughter...
they do so with intentions that then they have the right to control their adult child and his our her nuclear family.
 
This is only one example of giving that is not giving freely.
Love has to not have strings attached for love or giving with strings attached like onto a kite that control the kites flight..left or right...higher...and higher...or lower in the sky.
 
For "Love" that seeks power or control is not love but coercion.
 
So I though our Christmas Season was not all that we hoped for relationship wise...
We rejoice that we received far more than we had dreamed for when visiting my parents....
 
My brother & sister in law who have not fallen away from their Catholic Faith as my father did long before I was born....my brother, sister in law, and nephews have rejoiced with us to be again in hugging each other with our arms and hearts and so Christmas for us Gustavsons was very blessed.
 
Let none of us regardless where on earth we are from or have been...or where we are headed...journeying to....allow anyone else to steal from us what is ours and belongs to no other unless we give...
That is our hearts, our souls joy and happiness regardless if we are married or single we will always meet and greet along every street sour grapers who will always judge us critically...
 
Be not rude...say that is your choice_____________, but as for me and my husband____________as for me and my wife_________  We will serve the Lord and never be blue over this or that and certainly not blue over you or your choices which are yours to make.
 
Then drive or dance away into the sunset...knowing you put forth your best effort to be peace makers...to be bridges between others not dividers....rejoice that HE makes each day new...and since like Doris Day always sang:   "Kay Sarah Sarah...whatever will be will be..the future is not ours to see.... " 
 
And add in your own versus:   But you and I can choose the better things along our way each day as we keep seeking HIS Holy Face with our hearts always kneeling to HIM.
 
And when I our you on purpose choose to refuse to let others dictate how we feel, act or behave..or even control our decisions what clothes we wear, or how we style our hair...hats or no hats...
Without using profanity stating your decision of limitations...regardless circumstances....and cutting of those relationships which tried to divide you and your wife or husband or causing you to sin or slide...
 
You will like us become Esthers and Jacobs too....walking in the path towards righteousness and heaven....
On the road to be as Mother Angelica encourages all who watch and listen.... her Intro of her "Mother Angelica Live Program which can be viewed  on    www.EWTN.com
"We are all called to be great saints...Don't miss the opportunity!"
 
Amen Amen Amen!
 
 
EstherStephanada!
 
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       USA
 
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

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

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Catholics are confused about pro-life / pro-choice ...abortion ..Will Never Be Chased Down By Blessings But Stress!


Anyone living a contradiction will be super stressed having to cover up lies and contradictions constantly!

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 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.

And this is only one contradiction people live daily and justify constantly...anyone justifying themselves will have hardship not peace that surpasses all understanding but conflict within their own heart & soul.

Shake it off and speak contradictions no more & remain  under and within HIS mantle of protection and infinite blessings forever!

Amen Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

EstherStephanada!



Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

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.

There comes a time that one must cut others off or the river of their own life and protection will dry up...

So the choice belongs to each one...to you and to me...each one whose hearts are always kneeling ...
Without fear they simply get up and move on to a new place...

Just as our Lord did HE never got caught up into he saids she saids or dids & Did nots...
HE never got caught up into the politics of the day....

Though instead HE spoke correction boldly without regard who was behaving wrong not caring that they would not enjoy being corrected.

HE boldly said that a fool resists correction because he is conceited.

 How true!

Never let fools separate you from the river of MIRACLES that God tries to anoint each life with...that can be yours if you are willing to pay the price of jealousy, criticism and gossip,
And remain vigilant & ready to embrace what befalls you allowing God to place your steps in another direction...

Around stubbornness and above those who would rather stand back and be silent waiting for someone else to step forward than be the one who speaks up for the abused or down trodden.

Let revival begin and let it begin now with me!

Open your hearts in love that you may be both receipient of MIRACLES and be a vehicle of MIRACLES for others.

Amen




















Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Those Who Are Silent, and Not With Their Mouth Professing & Confessing....

Those who are silent and fear....
Will never enjoy the abundant fruits that await all who are true to HIS Holy Word  declaring HIS full filled promises in and through us!

For as HIS Word says: "Let the Redeemed of the Lord say....  You say so!

You cannot have HIS bountiful blessings chasing you down if you silently await for someone else to come along and bring correction in places of severe defiance of Almighty God and or HIS Commandments!

And as a mother or father...head of household what are you doing to send your family members out for their day with the protection of the Mantle of Almighty God??

How about starting your family's morning with a scripture reading around your breakfast table...and asking each child and family member how or what special will they that day to lead even one lost one to Jesus?

And after each shares their ideas and all encourage encourage & strengthen each family member..
Father, Mother Brother or Sister who is the head of your household...anoint the foreheads of each member as you send them out to be a bright beacon shining forth HE who is within them.

But be sure to not forget to ask a different family member each day to anoint and all lay their praying hands upon you, that you their husband, father, mother, sister or brother...leader not become weakened.

And keep on keeping on...speaking out for HIS Righteousness sake!

Anyone can be a silent fake...but you...all of you have been created in HIS own image to be greater than...men who just lay back and let others do everything.

As Pope Francis TWEETED today...  "If we have found in Jesus meaning in our lives we cannot be indifferent to the poor & the sad"

TWITTER only allows a few typed characters...and so I am certain that if he had the space of characters to continue that he to would also say:  We cannot be indifferent at all in any circumstances.

For God's Holy Word says:  "If You are not hot nor cold....I will spit you out of my mouth"

For our spoken words create at all times.

If we are speaking kindly, not demeaning nor critical...but speaking hope and confidence in God's Faithfulness to full fill all of HIS promises written in HIS Holy Word...

When with vitality and grace we encourage others to face their accusers with the Lord at their side and behind them always defending their charity and pureness of heart...

Then surely revival will fall across every land where you and I must and do to take a vocal stand...
Vocalizing the TRUTH with the authority our baptism in the Name of the Father, in the Name of the Son Jesus Christ, and in the name of HIS Most Holy Spirit!

And right now you can begin carrying this out adding your voice to be heard from the mountaintops of the World Wide Web Internet... as you right now share this blog on your Facebook and ask others to do the same and those on TWITTER let your FAITH like glitter shine forth as you TWEET & RE-TWEET this all over and over again!

May no one again be silenced by fear...but sing HIM new songs of honor and praise and watch multitudes of blessings come your way because you added your voice to HIS!  Amen Amen

Thursday, June 20, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

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





Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA  70454

Friday, April 26, 2013

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

Thursday, April 4, 2013

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

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

 
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From Stephanie Gustavson
 
Arts and Crafts Professional
Greater New Orleans Area
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Be,

I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn.

- Stephanie

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Monday, March 11, 2013

Today I'm "Flippin" Joy!

Last year before my husband & I temporarily shook Louisiana dust for Mionnesotta breezes that were not yet freezin...
I opened an email that apeared to be from a friend I knew well & love much.
 
And just has happened to most computing folks in this world at least once....
Hummmmmmmmmmm  a wormy germ got into my computer callrd "Flipora!"
 
Well my computer had fallen when my husband opened our side door along our journey through Arkansas...
WalMart parking lot along Hwy 71 to be exact...
 
My screen cracked and so getting rid of the "Flipora" became a concern no more...
Until Saturday when my Dawlin replaced my screen.
 
Today I went to my Norton Security & chatted with technician...and she who was in Arkansas....did such a wonderful job of not only getting rid of the wormy bug....but kindly educated me too..."Flipping joy to you...that you need not let anything make you blue...
 
But sing, give thanks for what is not yet...
And the Lord up above who sits upon the throne watching & waiting to hear HIS Holy Word sung with just a mustard dustin of trustin Faith & Love...
That HE may make your dreams that you sing become reality!
 
MIRACLES that is will follow & chase you down....
No chance to frown or be down when you are singing dreams into reality...
 
SMILE!!!  Sing!!
 
Monkeys Do what monkeys hear and see!
 
What are they seeing you do?

Friday, December 14, 2012

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

William & I have been thoroughly amused at the crazy behaviors of those who cut themselves loose...
 
Simply hilariously funny all that we had been folks do in both the Bohnigs and Winn-Dixie parking lots to catch a glimpse of the couple everyone is talking about...
He walks her in and asks for a sample which he blesses and breaks and shares with her.  Then orders either only 2 or 4 slices of low salt turkey or occasionally ham...
with a deli salad and a sack of rolls...unless they bought the rolls the night before.
 
They like to hear my dearest call me:  "My Sweetie-Pie" as he tenderly protectively walks me through the parking lot to our van shielding arrogant male gaukers from approaching me with their hands.
 
But these men & women who wish to have us as friends...they must change how they dress first before we will ever entertain conversation...
Instead of introducing themselves from a natural distance of a few feet away...
They have forced their way by confrontation...
 
Mary Ernst tried bull dozing us over with her shopping cart in the Bohnigs Super-Market and the big giant RED-Headed Roly-Poly always dressed in royal purple...at least one of her garments... has tried backing over me with her metallic colored small car.....more times than I am able to keep tract of....
 
But her venomous attacks come only once a week before the 5PM Vigil Mass!
 
I can understand why she is full of such rage...
She set her self up to be grumpy always by driving a vehicle that which the roof or ceiling is not tall enough for her.
 
She's a big big chunky woman...TALL but her gigantic abdomen weighs her UHGggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg...
Actually dragging her upper body down several inches crunching over her stomach...
 
Honestly....I am surprised she can rise up to or for any occasion at all...
But why she didn't buy herself a taller car...
But frustrates herself even more each time she ever goes out doors.
 
I cannot ever imagine her choosing to walk instead of drive and ride....
 
Soon and very soon....she and the rest...if they change not their aggressive revengeful behavior against us or against any one within our presence they will eventually be caught on EstherStephanada's Camera!
 
And the only mercy they will be shown is to made the "Uncovered Villain on the BLOGS 5, 6, or 10PM NEWS"
 
Cameras ROLL'N

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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

Regardless what your circumstances are...
For many things are out of our control.
 
We can accept that which we cannot change while choosing to speak only kind words that do not divide but lift high and heal...
Pure kind words that heal body soul and mind regardless how snoody and grumpy a rough stiff-necked one is to you you cany-can -can stead of returning his our her own jealous hardboiled..carborator chewing vulgarity back.
 
You can simply say as I have to such a prune:  "Sory you feel so bad...hope your better soon!"
But never let such a snot drag you down from the clouds where you have flown upon HIS Holy Wings of fire...
 
Remember every man woman and child was created in the unique image of Almighty God and each one was given the ability to love...for love is what we were created for....and let not those who refuse to receive your love and return it...never let one of these grumpy grump bumps an a log get you down.
 
Tell them to wear blue without being blue..that if you do in spite of their behavior towards you....then they can wear blue without being blue or stewed and can change their grumps to a cheery mood and be included more often any where any time...
 
For a cheerful love giving one without an angry jealous spirit...
Is always more than welcomed but always sought after for their joy & laughter not only instantly fills any room...
But spills out into each one who in turn spills and spreads it in just as many directions an all have much affection for such a one who choose to never be blue nor let any lemon sour-graper
poison their dispostion, but rather simply blesses their day and moves onto meet and greet those who walk in shoes of peace and never folly.
 

Friday, December 7, 2012

As Blessings Chase You...Your Enemies Will Evaporate Before Your Eyes When You Stand Righteously Forgiving Without Waiting For Others to Apologize

Take not credit for any that HE does through me or you
Much of what HE does through me... I do not even fully understand myself.
When HE anoints me & directs me to do something...I try to be immediately obedient and y hands fly faster n the keys than my mind can keep up at times.
So if I took credit for what HE does through me...I would surely shrivel up and die.
For it is HE who is within me...who has already overcome the world of disease and hardships that sin brought into a perfect world....that dispelled or infected what was good and pure which is what sickness and abnormalities from God's original plan and design are...defined.
Blessings such as these are really more responsibility than a gift...though it is a gift and the purpose for which I was born...If I chose to do as Frank Sinatra...and "Do it MY WAY" I guarantee you would never read me...
Certainly never recommend my blogs to any other.
Keep on smiling in the face of the enemy and he will dissolve and evaporate for you before your eyes!
For HE who is in you is not only in front of you clearing your way...but behind you defending you from your jealous enemies who are crude, rude and desire your end...or death...for anyone obediently living following each of HIS instructions from the moment he wakes till falls to sleep at night...
Whether studying for HIS Holy Priesthood...or just merely typing these blogs obediently as I am now;
The devil actually fears such obedient souls!
The devil is the biggest coward that ever was....for when he committed the first sin in all creation....God cast him down!
So the only tactic the enemy of God has in his hand is wielding your fears that he observes in you against yourself.
God's Holy Word declares that perfect love casts out all fear.  So when ever you feel afraid f anything...
Ask yourself:  Who do I need to forgive?
For perfect love never holds in bondage of unforgiveness anyone...not forgiving each one who offends you in both a minor or serious way...not merely hurts the relationship between yourself and this person who hurt you....but holding grudges or anger hurts both God and they self.
For offense of any kind holds both you and others in bondage...and only when one forgives even before the accused, accuser, or attacker asks for forgiveness do you or I prevent bondage causing fear to grab onto our hearts...and can for any period till we make corrections slow our blessings to halt.

But you can too be an Esther or a Jacob too refusing to be blue or becoming unglued...but giving generously from your heart both from your treasure and your pleasures share your time with others who are merely lonely leading the lost to Jesus Christ.

We all by the authority of our baptisms are called to be both priests and prophets...but silence not your tongue when HIS Most Holy Spirit places HIS words into your heart.

For silence is never a virtue when charity requires speech or when the Lord of Hosts fills you to be HIS prophet for "A little while"!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!  Stay and remain in HIM and remain chased down by blessings that you cannot contain nor maintain but must pour out onto others less become smothered...

Here HE comes raining down!

Monday, November 26, 2012

How is it That Most Christians Even Catholics....Divide Themselves Against Each Other?

Each and everyone born on earth of a woman was created by God to be a vessel of HIS love to others and flowing back through and into HIM as HE then creates beautiful wonders in and through everyone.
 
But not even Almighty God can perform this when people cut themselves off by their strange show-offy peculiar acts or stunts.....instead of walking up to the person they admire and desire with all their heart to have and share friendship with.
 
And our Holy Mother Catholic Church at least in this country even divides herself with requiring "Catholic Parish Registration."
 
Recall Saint Paul had heard that the new Christians in the areas which his disciples had gone out preaching and teaching the Holy Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ to...were now distinguishing themselves from one another.  Actually dividing their own body...for as Christians they like we living today....each of you reading this right now...
 
Whether you have asked our Lord Jesus to come into your life yet, whether you have been catechized in the Faith of HIS Holy Catholic Church...our you are a Christian but not yet a Catholic.... you still are even if you do not know it have been created by God to know love & serve HIM.
 
The essence of Christianity is that we are not our own but were created by God to serve God through serving one another.
 
No one is an island.  What we do and what ever we say regardless where we are does not just affect oneself....but affects each person who hears us or is presence to witness our actions regardless if our actions are pure and kind and merciful as HE is...
 
And even the selfish hateful acts of the haughty jealous angry ones painfully affect those who see and hear such witness.
 
 
 

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Hello All! I searching email for something else...God placed this on my screen...Pictures I promised in wake of funeral....you Gerline , Fr John...& ....all of you. So I will simply forward instead of re-inenting the wheel.

                                        William & Stephanie 1rst Wedding Anniversary



On Colin's birthday September 18, 2009 we went to Billy Grahm's Library.
Getting all cowwed up for Free Lunch!  Cows Eat Free!!!  Whipee MOOOOOOOOOOOO


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: WILLIAM GUSTAVSON
Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:54 PM
Subject: Fwd: Hello All!





Forwarded conversation
Subject: Hello All!
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From: WILLIAM GUSTAVSON
Date: Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM
To: Aunt Joan Carroll Cruz , Aunt Judith & Uncle Steven , Charles t;, Courtney R Griggs , Kim Hussey Moser ;laura.summers, Lisa ; Daniel Carroll , Max  Mom; Dad Dan  Betty Carroll

Dear Family,
I have included all whose e-addresses we have listed in our computer and would have included everyone else had we had an e address for them.
We do not have much time before we do have to be permanently out of our house and an exact date is unknown.
This is a blessing and is answer to our prayers!  Our house is not salable at any price.  And walking away we will owe nothing.
If we sell it for nothing, we will have a loan to pay!  It is increadable....  read the atached letter typed today....  first attachment.
I have also attached some fun things. I will not have the luxury of being able to take the amount of time I have taken to prepare this to send to entire family in quite a long time!
See the attachments and GOD Bless all!
EstherStephanada

----------
From: WILLIAM GUSTAVSON
Appears to have mal-functioned... some things were not viewable...  so resending.  I promised Billy after getting this correctly sent that I will work only on certain things for our move!
Bye for a while!!  Be watching the postal mailbox until the move.   Then this account at least weekly after..
God Bless All and anyone can foward this to other members of family....  praying for all... regardless when I last heard from them!!
EstherStephanada & Billy-Jacob



Monday, September 10, 2012

How is it that the spiritually educated who lead us cannot accept that not all souls God has created will be in heaven? Why can't they recognize God's Wrath?

Recently in obedience to God I began a few new blogs to address harsh bitter attitudes that in the past lived among us, but were then the minority of society and usually they became the outcast.
 
 
But sadly today it is the opposite...the brash, hateful, unkind, harsh ones are the majority and when they encounter true kindness as Mother Teresa once wrote in a poem...  They do not understand why anyone would love them....so they return hostility and hatred for the love they had hoped and possibly prayed to receive...
 
But their brash hardness of heart pushes away those who seek only to love them and be loved by them...
Then they say that there is no God for a God who loves would have answered my prayers.
 
And thus God's Holy Word is full filled again...  "The sighted will be made blind and the blind will see!"  Do You See What I see???
 
Here is one sample response I have received from one of many religious order members who reads my blogs and other writings.
 
And below her response is the original


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

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




From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:48 PM

Hallo friends...I trust you all are okay after Isaac as we are....storms come to wash & cleanse the land of hate, sin that wicked or even those who consider themselves Christian but refuse to shake some form of Idolatry or sinfulness.
So I believe all of you are safe as we continue to be.  In actuality storms come for the sake of HIS righteous ones who seek HIM with all their heart from morning till dark.....to wash away anything that does not belong in a Christian or Catholic's life.

http://MaryTylerMooreDidYouKnow.blogspot.com
 
 
Love you all,
 
EstherStephanada!


Not many, not even Church leaders want to preach the Truth boldly anymore!
They fear the rise of out rage of whose toes their words will convict.
 
But as Mother Angelica on her programs which began airing on EWTN in the 1980's always said:  "We are all called to be great saints...Don't miss the opportunity!" 
And as a small child in the 1960's I was told that I would be a great saint one day....and I had the Faith to say:  "Whatever YOU say Lord!!! You KNOW EVERYTHING!"
 
Saints can never be silent...for by definition Saints are those who are bold to stand up for the weak, the poor and the trampled upon that no one else either cares about.
 
Saints are also the ones who refuse to talk focus on what they cannot do themselves or what they do not have and in spite of those who try to stop them focus on what God can and promises to do for them and through them regardless how many angry letters they receive...
 
Some so angry that they send through postal mail and do not sign them!
 
Saints are willing risk their lives for their own spouse, sister or brother in FAITH that HE will rescue them both...
and endure the hate and rejection of those who do not love, honor and cherish their own husband or wife as we do.
 
Today in a society where priests actually allow men & women to wear very tight vulgar fitting clothing on the altar reading the scripture readings of the day, creating a conflict of conscience within the hearts of anyone who tries to keep their thoughts absolutely pure...
 
More saints are needed to stand and speak up and let the heads and bodies roll where ever they may roll to...
And don't get frightened when they yell, scream, rant or rave that you have corrected them!
 
Let them squirm and squeal!!
 
When enough of us who want to remain pure while participating in Holy Mass press our Pastors to choose someone else to read who is addressed appropriately when a lector shows up in vulgar or revealing clothing...
 
It will happen!
 
And styles worn will change and become more modest.
 
But only if folks like you and me join and speak up!
 
So today write a letter to your pastor and let him know... and even better you can bring a petition to your pastor after having as many as you can from your community to sign it!
 
Friends go forth now and dare to live saintly....as all of us were created to be great saints...lets not miss this opportunity!
 
Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!
 
 
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