Tuesday, October 30, 2012

AUNT JOAN Carroll Cruz, Catholic author, has been called home....has died.



Forwarded conversation
Subject: AUNT JOAN Carroll Cruz, Catholic author, has been called home....has died.
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From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson
Date: Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 7:38 PM

Through out my entire life from memories of my tiniest days....Aunt Joan was the only person I ever knew well who loved tenderly, forgivingly....loved perfectly always. From those youngest days I recall her eyes were always very sad.  She truly suffered much heart ache her entire life...she a true suffering servant
 
Stephanie


 
Forwarded conversation
Subject: AUNT JOAN
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Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:45 PM


Dear Stephanie , We are sorry that we have some sad news. Aunt Joan passed away today Oct.20th at around 3:pm.She had heart surgery on Oct:17 to replace a valve, but it was also found that an artery had to be repaired. She recovered some, but the strain on her   heart was finally too much. We are glad we were able to see her often after we retired. This is very sad for us.  Hope you and William are doing alright .                                                                                              LOVE,MOM                        

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From: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson
Date: Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 2:04 PM
To: Betty Carroll


Thank you Mother.
 
No one told us she was going to have surgery.
 
October 17, 2007 was William's tumor surgery.
 
This was exactly how Aunt Elba died.
 
God always takes care of William & I.
 
Love & Prayers,
 
Stephanie



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From: Godfrey Beni Date: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 1:47 AM
To: Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson


May her soul, through the mercy of God, rest in eternal peace.
Our true home is in heaven, and Jesus Christ whose return we long for
will come from heaven to save us(Phil 3:20).

On 10/22/12, Mrs Stephanie Carroll Gustavson
 wrote:
> Through out my entire life from memories of my tiniest days....Aunt Joan
> was the only person I ever knew well who loved tenderly,
> forgivingly....loved perfectly always. From those youngest days I recall
> her eyes were always very sad.  She truly suffered much heart ache her
> entire life...she a true suffering servant
>
> Stephanie
>
>
>
> Forwarded conversation
> Subject: AUNT JOAN
> ------------------------
>
> Date: Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:45 PM
> To: EstherStephanada
>
> Dear Stephanie , We are sorry that we have some sad news. Aunt Joan passed
> away today Oct.20th at around 3:pm.She had heart surgery on Oct:17 to
> replace a valve, but it was also found that an artery had to be repaired.
> She recovered some, but the strain on her   heart was finally too much. We
> are glad we were able to see her often after we retired. This is very sad
> for us.  Hope you and William are doing alright .
>
> LOVE,MOM
>
> ----------



Tuesday, May 3, 2011

We Will Find Our Trails Through Trials Much Easier When WE Choose To Train Our Own Tongue!

Often both the trials that await us and those that chase us are of our own making...

At least we have the power to curb their ability to shake us.

We have not only the ability to choose our words carefully...
We have the responsibility to both chooseour words and speakour words prayerfully.

The one who makes critical words their usual greeting for each one they meet along every street...
Makes their path much rockier than it need be.

For what we sow is what we shall reap not only when we are gardening.
Let us make a purposeful decision right now!

Let us choose not to be silent observers of unneccessary harshness , nor silent observers of abominations!

We can begin a revolution of positive change by actually doing what most folks Mother's long ago taught them.

That is "Kill them with kindness!"

You women out there...never let anyone lump you into a group labelled "Guy's" again.

Simply politely say: "Excuse me friend...I am not a guy...and if the sad truth you find yourself correcting another woman...comfort her by adding...
"Niether are you!  Why do you let yourself sucumb to the world?  Why do you let the devil get a toe hole into your dignity and morality?  You and I are created uniquely in the image and likeness of GOD for GOD and that is why the evil doesn't like us!

Anyone who refuses to address you or I as we insist they do...by our names...are not worthy of any kind of relationship or friendship with us.

It is our responsibilty to choose our friends and aquaintances wisely.  When we allow ourselves to be surrounded by any folks who let themselves be chaff in the wind...

"Going with the flow" ...the path of least resistance in order to not obey GOD in speaking HIS Holy Truth that we not be in position to stand our ground and let the truth knock down whomever shall fall...

We ourselves who have the authority to use The Name Of Jesus will sucumb to and be devoured by the enemy....

For silence coupled with fear and lazyness are the enemy's only weapons!

So friends of GOD out there...never let anyone be an abomination to GOD in how they address yourself our your sister.

GOD calls us each by name...let us do the same and call each person along our trails that all of our challenges lead to triumph!

So let ua all today and always be imitators of Almighty GOD as HE calls us;
Call each one you know and each one you ever meet...by their full and proper name not nicknames...

This will stir inside each one a natural desire to strive to speak and live more purely and respond to our own neighbors more respectfully with dignity and courage!

This is not as difficult as the enemy wants you and I to think....
It only requires a purposeful decision in choosing our words and our words will naturally inspire the same within our hearers.

And a new reveolution of dignified mutual respect will quickly contagiously penetrate our cities from our mouthes, and our children's ...within super markets and shopping malls...school yards and boys and girls clubs...

Making the trials along our trails to triumph not as rocky....but smoother!

We can do this We really Cany can can can!

Monday, May 31, 2010

ONES TRIALS SHALL ALWAYS BE TOUGHER AND ONE MAY NEVER RECOVER.....

Only when one walks and talks and does all things in and through and for the Lord and the Lord alone...

Only when a person is at all times united to Jesus Christ and the Father through the Most Holy Spirit
Shall ones challenges and trials not prevail over him!

When one Loves GOD, and goes to HIM and trrough HIM for all things... That the Lord of HOSTS HIMSELF fights his battles for him & through him...

Then and only then will a mans challenges become Gloriously Triumphant through out his life if and only and as he GIVES GOD all the credit for all things in his life!

HIS OIL AS ALL NOW CAN SEE NOT ONLY HEALS BUT CAN KILL...

When oh men and women too down in Louisiana turn your face to ME FOREVER, hide and harden not your hearts!
Fall to your knees in TRUE REPENTANCE BEFORE ME THE KING OF KINGS and I WHO FORMED THE EARTH, THE SEAS AND ALL WITHIN IT...

I SHALL EVAPORATE MY OIL FROM YOUR GULF WATERS FOR MY MERCY IS GREATER THAN MY WRATH,

HOW LONG HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE FOR YOUTO TURN FROM YOUR LIENG, CHEATING, STEALING, DISHONEST WAYS!

YOU CAN CONTINUE THE WAYS YOU ARE LIVING BY AND YOU SHALL CERTAINLY PERISH...

OR YOU CAN CHOOSE MY BETTER AND BEST PART BY FALLING TO YOUR KNEES AND LET ME TAKE YOUR HEARTS OF STONE AWAY, AND GIVE YOU HEARTS FOR LOVE ALONE!

YOU CANNOT STOP MY OIL of WRATH ON YOUR OWN, NOR CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELVES WITH BIGGER LEVEES!

ALL YOU NEED IS TO CHOOSE TRUE REPENTANCE & LOVE!  HATE AND CHEAT NO MORE!  TURN AWAY FROM YOUR SIN...


COME TO ME ALL YE WHO ARE WEARY AND I WILL CALM YOUR RIVERS AND SEAS...  AND YOU SHALL HAVE MY PEACE RESTORED!

Amen Amen Amen & Alleluia!

Monday, April 5, 2010

WHEN PAIN OF EITHER BODY, MIND OR HEART KEEPS YOU FROM LIVING IN HIS JOY>>>>>

What ever kind of pain is dragging you down....


No need to ever even frown! The Blues never need to get a hold of you....



For if you nor I ever have pain of disease, trauma, nor mental emotional anguish...


You nor I will ever experience The Joy of a Healing!


So whatever it is that I suffer... whether lack of housing, food or water... Back or neck pain, I REJOICE for I have something to GIVE GOD that HE did not give me!


For our pain and sufferings are the only things in life that are truely ours.... Our Trials we face along the trails of challenges that lead to TRIUMPH IN & WITH and For HIM....


But Only when we Embrace whatever Befalls us with JOY In & Through HIM.....

And the highest toughest mountains are leveled because we chose to have Joyful FAITH of a Mustard Seed Grain....

And beneath our feet they remain turning into dust and MoleHills!





Keep Giving Your Gorgeous Smiles away.... For they are the only free gifts that are imediately joyfully returnable & exchangeable..... and the dividends keep rapidly multiplying and marshmellowing all over and overflowing.... forever always!


Blessings!


EstherStephanada!

Sunday, February 21, 2010

LET US REFLECT UPON AND ADHERE toTHE WORDS of Fr Brain Mulcahy and Fr Dominic Izzo and STRENGTHENED BY THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB OF GOD TRIUMPH & VICTORY IN JESUS SHALL FOLLOW US THROUGH TRAILS OF ANY KINDS OF TRIALS!

 Lenten Reflection
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From: *Very Reverend D. Dominic Izzo, O.P.*
Sunday February 21, 2010

 Dear Friends,

 Fr. Brian Martin Mulcahy, O.P.
Now that we have entered the Lenten season, I would like to share with you a
meditation from Fr. Brian Martin Mulcahy, O.P.

At the start of every Lenten Season, on the First Sunday of Lent, the
Church, in her wisdom, always gives us the account of our Lord's Temptation
in the Desert for our consideration and reflection. The temptations that
Christ suffered in the desert for forty days at the start of His public
ministry were not His first temptations, nor would they be the last
temptation of Christ. In St. Luke's account of the Temptation, which we are
given this year, we read: *When the devil had finished every temptation, he
departed from Him for a time*. That next "time" would be in Christ's Passion
and Death, when our Lord would be tempted to flee the suffering and the
pain.

Oftentimes, when *we* speak of being tempted, of our own experience of
temptation, we speak of the struggle with our desire for something
pleasurable: be it another human being, a piece of chocolate cake, or a
large sum of money. The struggle arises when we realize that other factors
must be taken into consideration; that our lives consist of more than just
the accumulation of pleasurable experiences.

However, that is a very limited, restricted notion of what it means to
undergo temptation. That is *not *the type of temptation our Lord
experienced during His forty days in the desert. Such a limited notion of
temptation depicts the world and our lives as a place filled with beautiful,

NO ONE IS ACCEPTED AND LOVED EVERY WHERE BY EVERYONE! JESUS WASN'T SO WHY DO WE LOOK TO BE?

Certainly GOD created all of us to love HIM and each other.... But let us remember that was before the first sin of pride ever took place!

When Lucifer decided that being a "Bearer of GOD's LIGHT" was not enough for him... 
He claimed The Light to be his own... and was cast from heaven to romp and roam upon thr earth which he knows will never be his own...

From this point on temptations to taste and try things the evil one makes appear to be good have been harder for some to pass up.

Remember however GOD never tempts us...  "HE Lead us NOt into temptation and HE Delivers us from all evil"

So when anyone you or I meet or greet along any street, invites you to join them at the neighborhood bar for a drink or two....

Or let's go down to Burbon Street where the Go-Go Girly strippers are....

You instead invite them to join you to Mass and ask your Pastor if he would... hear their confession even if it is not part of the schedule....

And give this fellow some ashes today would you?  He came to late for AshWednesday, but it is never too late to come home to Our Lord's House where has made ready a room for each one...

HE has prepared a Supper Table an Altar where HE yearns to feed each one...  with HIS own Flesh and Blood and HIS Holy Word which is our sustance for our journey through Trails of Trials and Tribulations...  Satan cannot devour us unless we let him...

Being filled with GOD's Body and Covered with HIS Blood and knowing HIS Most Holy Words so that we can Speak it back to the devil upon his temptation...

Will keep Satan running away from us searching for a more vulnerable victim...

But let us join hands and hearts in both prayer and Sacrament and JESUS CHRIST WILL GAIN our victory In us Through us and For us!
Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

EstherStephanada can & You can too Do al things through Jesus Christ... SO Let's Go out and DO The Impossible!  In HIM We can we can!!

Thursday, February 18, 2010

YOUR TRIALS CAN BE CONQUERED FOR GOOD & YOU'LL NEVER HAVE ANOTHER >>> ONLY TRIUMPHS OVER COULD BE TRADGEDY FOR ME & YOU!

All things work for good for those who Love The Lord Our GOD with all their hearts, mind and soul...


Who answer HIS Call upon their hearts and are led according to HIS Divine purposes by HIS Most Holy Spirit never fretting when interuptted by anything or  anyone...  not even by a wife, child, or husband!

A spirit filled, spirit led man woman or child, knows how to embrace his or her interuptions as Divine Appointments with Our Lord,
That HE may lead them into a place of Blessing where HE wants to use them to bring life and light into darkness and open new windows of oppertunity....

Not only for those we had not planned to see that day...
But ones-self too shall always receive abundantly and never be docked for obeying and flowing with the Divine insprations of Our Lord....   HE rewards joyful, obedience reaching out in love...

So let not ones schedule be so ridgid that one cannot let GOD place ones steps....  For our answered prayers and dreams often hang balanced in scales that we tip ourselves with our own choices!

We can choose the better...HIS best part and HE promises it will not be taken from us!

We can we can we Canny can can!!

EstherStephanada!