Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Do You Have Compassionate Eyes?
Eyes that never turn away from pain;
But show love and kindness to those in need or who are hurting possibly grieving from great loss...
Eyes that transfer strength and hope to one who is lost?
Sometimes when we take the time to slow down to feel another's pain and lift them up that they nor one-self will ever be the same....
We receive much more than we give... we receive the heart of a new friend.
Friendships and relationships are the only things that survive death... soon and very soon there will be no time left.
So make sure your relationships are good, worthy to be admired for you do not want to spend Eternity in Eternal Fire!
EstherStephanada!
Friday, July 9, 2010
EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES..... I WAS ALMOST BLIND AND NOW I SEE!!
I since arriving in Florida, where priests were leaving out Mass parts...going from the Our Father and a sign of peace directly to distributing Communion... giving me not the opportunity and my need to fall upon my knees to say: "Lord I am not worthy, but only say the word and I shall be healed."
Struggling interiorly because of this, intellectually knowing GOD protects the innocent lay folks from the sins of the priest, yet that is because, or I have always thought because no one but GOD really knows the condition of any soul.... so how could anyone such as myself make a judgement to not go to a particular priest's Mass.
But in the case of leaving out Mass parts, and most of all congregations like the priest were also not reverent of The Lord's presence in the church's tabernacle and not even during the Consecration. Everyone was standing, not kneeling for the Consecration except for me and most were standing around with their hip stuck out and irritated watching their watches ...How much longer?
Well Jesus in his speaking of being the Good Shepherd said "My sheep hear My Voice and no other voice will they follow!" So if priests do not even reverence the Consecration of Jesus in their own hands... who following them will?
And thus it was because of this grieving GOD did a miracle for me!
While I was grieving not knowing to go receive or not, for I knew and understood that he was leaving out Mass parts and both the priests in most all churches in Florida we had been to up to this point were doing so.
I grieved over these young ones whose only examples are these... how can they learn to truly Love GOD?
Jesus appeared to me in dazzling white and said to me: "If you do not come receive me worthily, who will?"
I cringed, because, I know I fall short of HIS Glory! All have sinned! I know that all accomplished by me, was not accomplished by me, but by HIM through me. I know how little I understand when I am not in union with HIM.
And if we are ashamed of HIM publicly, HE will not speak for us before HIS Heavenly Father!
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From: Stephie
Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:07:15 -0500
Subject: EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES..... I WAS ALMOST BLIND AND NOW I SEE!!
Hello,Not only can I see a much larger range than just the tiny cone of area as before....I am now actually able to pick out my typos that cause email to come back to me. Those of you who have known me the longest, know I always needed an email sent to me first...For me to click onto to ensure proper delivery!What GOD has done for me and for us... HE will do for anyone for HE is not a respecter of persons but FAITH... and ALL it Takes is a Mustard grain seed of it and you like I can speak to your Mountains of sickness, pain, debt, headaches of any kind in your life or the lives of your loved ones and cast them into the deepest part of the sea and be gone forever Amen and Alleluia... FAITH & not doubt is All you need!Nothing is impossible! But Rather ALL Things ARE POSSIBLE with & for GOD! PRAISE THE LORD! AMEN AMEN!Since GOD is bringing my Billy-Jacob state to state with his teaching program, we are rarely going to be able to attend the same Catholic Church more than once or twice... We will not be changing our Church Parish Registration.It makes no sense. Our Lord Jesus went town to town spreading HIS Gospel, but always returned to Jerusalem
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From: Les Schmidt
Date: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:07 PM
To: Stephie Gustavson
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From: Teresa Kemp Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM
To: Stephie Gustavson
Hi Stephanie,
that's a Great picture -- and also great news about your healing. you have wonderful faith.
I had a friend that gave me a good teaching on "be submissive to your husband". It was a lesson about "trusting God" and really submitting to God in the ordinary things. There is no conflict when following the word of God
- if, for example, I, the wife would rather do some praise and worship but my husband wants me to be quiet and to sit down and watch the news with him, I can submit to the husband as an 'act of submitting to God' and I can 'let God be in the ordinary moment' of watching tv. I've learned that 'a good way' is not better than "God's way". God has done more when I have done less- it's a "let go and let God" kind of thing...
I just want to encourage you to not think that you have to "choose God " over your husband. God has taken care of that. If you refrain from singing and dancing aloud because your husband asks you to, it is both honoring God and your husband to make the sacrifice. Besides, your spirit can sing and dance and pray even when your outer self is quiet. I believe that God does use our husbands to do "His will". For example, maybe God knew of someone on the beach who really needed to hear His voice-----maybe the "quiet" would have suited His purpose better. The sound of the waves makes me think of God.
Well, I better get off--getting late-
, I hope you guys are staying warm! I know it is cold even in Florida now. It's been in the twenties and the wind has been blowing----
I'm keeping guys in prayer-
take care
love ya,
Teresa
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EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES..... I WAS ALMOST BLIND AND NOW I SEE!!
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Hi Teresa,
I aggree with you Teresa; I wish it was refraining that sort of stuff was the issue.
Stephie
Saturday, December 26, 2009
YOU CAN CHOOSE TO SEE THROUGH HIS EYES INSTEAD OF YOUR OWN...... BUT WE AT TIMES MUST FORCE EVEN OPTICIANS TO DO THEIR JOB CORRECTLY!
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:24 AM
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thank You For Your Pledge/ PLEDGE WITH ME NOT JUST TO FIGHT DRUNK DRIVING BUT>>>>
From: MADD Online <enews@madd.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Subject: Thank You For Your Pledge
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I have had botch jobs by opticians throught my 49 years of life/ NOW LICENESED STATES WANT TO STOP LICENSING BECAUSE OF COSTS!
Subject: I have had botch jobs by opticians throughout my 49 years of life
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From: Mail <customerservice@abo-ncle.org>
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM
To: Stephie Gustavson
Yes, it is. For many years, the Opticians Association of America has tried to get states to license. Now, with the cost of testing, more states are considering dropping licensure!!
From: Stephie Gustavson
Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:31 PM
Subject: I have had botch jobs by opticians through out my 49 years of life...
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From: Stephie Gustavson
Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM
To: Mail <customerservice@abo-ncle.org>
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From: Stephie Gustavson
Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM
To: Mail <customerservice@abo-ncle.org
Friday, October 23, 2009
YIKES MY EYES HAVE FINALLY SEEN WHAT THEY NEVER SAW BEFORE!!! TAKE A LOOK AT MY FLOOR!!!
And All because I am now in a state that requires Opticians to maintain a license!!! Be properly educated no different than nurses or doctors!!!
And to my horror, this morning I received a note from the national organization of Opticians telling me that some states that license now is required, plan on dropping licensing because it costs too much for testing!!!
The wonderful John Rizzo of LensCrafters ib Concord NC explained to me today the hows and wherefores that are politically driven by money & I scratch your back so you better scratch mine!!!
The Usual... Lobbyists!!! Pressing the right... or should I say wrong buttons...
Depending on which perspective you are coming from!
Optical stores want to be able to hire cheaper labor, which means they want to hire uneducated persons who do not pay annual fees for their license.
So folks lets band together & mobilize... We must FIGHT THIS for our own safety & the safety of our children & our children's children!!
Realize that people in all states that do not license have OOOODLES of people who are licensed to drive on our country's roads & highways... who even if they take care of themselves keeping up with annual eye exams.... but if they through no fault of their own are working and driving with the wrong lenses...
They are driving impaired but legally acceptable by the laws of this great land!!!
But it is costing the lives of an uncountable number of folks who die daily on on highways & byways & country roads like the ones YOU & I LIVE ON!!
EstherStephanada here saying you can make a difference... write and call your Congressmen & Congresswomen... Your Governor & The White House! Tell ALL the Dangers and Demand That Opticians be licensed everywhere in this country... That all accidents that can be prevented will be!!!
GOD BLESS YOU... and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
DO YOUR EYES HAVE IT??? OR YI YI YI YI...OUCH MY EYES!
For starters I had my first adequate eye exam of my life!
Even though I had an excellent eye doctor for many of my teenage into adult life, he nor anyone else at anytime of my life told me in a way that I understood how to answer their questions that the use to determine a patients range of peripheral vision!
Remember as a child the eye care proffessional would say: "Watch the froggie on the stick... now keep your eyes on my nose and tell me when you see the froggie!"
Well, a person born completely deaf lets say... usually has much sharper vision than the average. Just as some blind folks hear such the faintest sounds I as a child thought my Grand Mothers had eyes on the back of their heads since their eyes on their faces did not work!
Well, I was born dead, recessitated, my eyes cast to side and could not focus on anything in front me, but saw only what was on the far opposite sides of me.
I had muscle surgery at age 3 months to correct this problem, but the world famous surgeon who operated on me.... Dr Robert Azar Sr must have never explained to my parents I would never have depth perception.
And after my recent exam by Dr Hasson, and June of Cabarrus Eye Center in Concord NC, I learned that I also can only see what is directly in front of me eyes!!!
YiYi Yi Yi!!! YIKES... No wonder I have had soSSOOOOO many close calls... GOD has literally snatched me from absolute certain death... must be a trillion more times a day every day of my life since I first crawled!!
How overwhelmingly heart warming!! And I not knowing... not having a clue Never thanked GOD trillions of times which HE deserved enormous thanks and praise!
For I speed skated on Rollers... ans ICE.... YIKES!!!
Biked up and down ramps... sometimes with my baby on my back>>> Can you Imagine???
I can't>>> How increadible is that??? Only in GOD can any soul find rest... or in my case PROTECTION... as well also!!
On Friday, after returning to JC penneys Optical of the Concord Mall in weConcord NC on HWY 29 near 601a really botched job pair of glasses measured by Vicki L Eudy after having them for a week after she had told me "You have to get used to them!"
We, my husband and I went to LensCrafters within the same mall!
John Rizzo measured me correctly for the first time ever in my life! Imagine needing glasses since childood and never having received an appropriate pair of glasses, not because your parents did not take you to fine doctors...
My parents I am sure paid out much on my eyes... little did not only they know that I could not see anything... not even a tiny fraction of what I can see now...
Even though Only GOD can correct my depth perception and lack of peripheral vision.
I am positive my parents never knew just how blind I was!!!
Because through out life they got angry, popped me "Why don't you watch where you are going???"
When I came home with my wonderful LensCrafters glasses, I Actually came home Horrified that My HOUSE IS FILTHY!!!!!
I could not see most dirt & grime!! I am very overwhelmed by how I have not been cleaning my house, though I have been going through the motions of doing so.... sweeping... scrubbing each part of the house!
I felt so sick seeing the crud we have been living in I could Vomit!! No wonder my husband has been so frustrated!! Having nothing but horror stories of Lens Crafter's in
New Orleans LA area, and combine that we thought the gentleman in LensCrafers Concord a bit wild and unmarried... no Wedding Band...
I was a bit afraid to have his face & hands that close to mine!
That is why I had gone to JC Penny's to begin with... I was a bit nervous getting into the face of an unmarried man!
But much to my delightful surprise... John, the LensCrafters guy though like me very energetic and a bit too eager & enthusiatic to help me, or so I thought....
He is very much a gentleman...very educated, highly respectable and honorable man!
Turned out he like my husband is an American Vietnam Veteran, having been in the same part of Vietnam as my husband. He & his wife are both Catholic like us and share the same convictions about many issues concerning todays society.
His Wedding Band was cracked and he & his wife getting new bands and renewing their vows soon after 37 years of mariage!!
So this once again proves the scripture... WE CANNOT JUDGE FROM OUTWARD APPEARANCES...
We are not to judge others at all... For only GOD can see the heart!!
And though we are told to be weary of those who wash their heads and wear fine robes.... whose insides make GOD VOMIT....
Often if we by pass one who "Seems" to be a bit this or that...
We could be passing by a pearl the Lord Himself placed in our path to Bless us!
I recomend to anyone in Concord/Charlotte NC area to get their glasses from John Rizzo at LensCrafters....
He does the finest work... he educated us as well...
How many folks are aware that not all states license Opticians!!
Obviouly Louisiana where I was born does not!! Not much of a surprise though to me!!
So much in Louisiana has been substandard compared to other parts of the country!
This is just a tip of still another iceberg... another hole in the fabric of both colorful politics to match the Swiss Cheezy way every thing has been done in all facets of life in the BIGGEST HOLE in the ground beneath the sea!

