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 Mother Theresa wrote and said that there will always be those who cannot go through their day without finding someone to put down, criticize or abuse.
It is sickening how some people actually feel better about themselves only after putting someone else down.
Could that be you?
Are your words kind? Do you correct another by just saying: "When you do______ will you please instead_______" or do you become angry the first time you speak to your neighbor who you are displeased with?
As Mother Theresa wrote and said that there will always be those who cannot go through their day without finding someone to put down, criticize or abuse.
It is sickening how some people actually feel better about themselves only after putting someone else down.
Could that be you?
Are your words kind? Do you correct another by just saying: "When you do______ will you please instead_______" or do you become angry the first time you speak to your neighbor who you are displeased with?
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...
Every house or city divided against itself with eventually fall. We heard this too in Holy Mass just in the last few days...
Yet so many even Daily Mass Catholics hear this, receive Holy Communion, then run out of the door quickly cackling obviously never receiving into their hearts the fullness of truth of HE whom they have just eaten...
They make a mockery of Jesus every time they go to Holy Mass...no wonder so many are reluctant to become Catholic even they they recognize that the Catholic Church is the True Church Jesus started and is coming back for.
They see with their own eyes how even Catholics shun each other...they see no difference between Catholics and themselves because the genuine do not hang around after Holy Mass to be seen among the hoopla of charades
Every house or city divided against itself with eventually fall. We heard this too in Holy Mass just in the last few days...
Yet so many even Daily Mass Catholics hear this, receive Holy Communion, then run out of the door quickly cackling obviously never receiving into their hearts the fullness of truth of HE whom they have just eaten...
They make a mockery of Jesus every time they go to Holy Mass...no wonder so many are reluctant to become Catholic even they they recognize that the Catholic Church is the True Church Jesus started and is coming back for.
They see with their own eyes how even Catholics shun each other...they see no difference between Catholics and themselves because the genuine do not hang around after Holy Mass to be seen among the hoopla of charades
By shunning visitors into ones church no different than Ponchatoula citizens shun newcomers who choose to make Ponchatoula home...they post pone the growth of God's church and...
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.
You can choose to be different than those fakey flakeys who merely pretend to be pure...
Just as we will never find figs on a lemon tree....we will never find a true friend among those who start cackling the second Holy Mass closes and waits not till they are outside to begin their childish yak yack that is for attention...they think they look important.
But in actuality they look and sound pitiful.
For such persons have no knowledge of God...or whom it is the eat in Holy Communion...
For those who do stay transfixed in awe of silence that their God chose to live within them and be their God and their food....
Such awe does not allow one to break silence...and feels and recognizes the falseness of the enemy of God who eats the Eucharist beside them to their own condemnation.
Those who truly love God are the salt of the earth who need not the acceptance of others in community to be happy to be content...they like we....with Saint Paul say: "We are content in all circumstances whether abased or abounding...
For all we need is our God who never forsakes us.
Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!
You can choose to be different than those fakey flakeys who merely pretend to be pure...
Just as we will never find figs on a lemon tree....we will never find a true friend among those who start cackling the second Holy Mass closes and waits not till they are outside to begin their childish yak yack that is for attention...they think they look important.
But in actuality they look and sound pitiful.
For such persons have no knowledge of God...or whom it is the eat in Holy Communion...
For those who do stay transfixed in awe of silence that their God chose to live within them and be their God and their food....
Such awe does not allow one to break silence...and feels and recognizes the falseness of the enemy of God who eats the Eucharist beside them to their own condemnation.
Those who truly love God are the salt of the earth who need not the acceptance of others in community to be happy to be content...they like we....with Saint Paul say: "We are content in all circumstances whether abased or abounding...
For all we need is our God who never forsakes us.
Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA 70454
