Salt Can Enhance Flavor....But THese Days It's Taste Usually Burns!

What happens to salt when it loses its flavor...asks the Holy Scripture?

It is worthless...simply scatter and trample upon...
But we ourselves are to be salt to the world...
With kind, encouraging, motivating words.

But today most places my precious William & I have ever gone,
From New Orleans to Maine...
North Carolina to Florida...and back to Lake Pontchatrain's Northshore...
North again through Arkansas Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota...
Even Wisconsin folks are all very lonely...
All want new friends...

But none could receive our friendship that we offered joyfully expecting only kindness...
Our bright Sonshiney Smiles they were not able to return...

Most folks as they got to know us...
They learned  we had no home at that time and were tent camping like the biblical times...
Jesus and HIS apostles and ST Paul after HIM...carried their tents on their backs or donkeys as they walked from town to town.

These folks instead of allowing themselves to be filled with our joy....
Our joy which is HIS...
They instead of receiving HIS best and better part which is HIM Himself...
Living Eucharist which is HIM living within us...
Living within each of you...Being broken, pouring out to and upon one another...
Broken, shared, prepared to listen, prepared to amuse with a balm of laughter and kindness...
Never haughty or rude...
Ourselves broken open to share our inner most hearts...loving, listening...singing new songs of hope to each other...sisters and brothers...

We who seek HIM each day...each Sabbath Sunday...
In HIS Holy Mass consecrated in Holy Catholic Churches around the world by HIS
Consecrated Priests...
Continuing the Tradition which HE Himself Jesus Christ
Directed HIS disciples now apostles to begin in HIS Name!

Each of us are called to be transparent vessels carrying HIM to others;
Allowing HIM to shine and echo out of our hearts through our smiles of joy...
But love, joy, and friendship though free indeed...
To any one regardless of race, education, backgrounds never need be checked...

An open heart not hardened...but tenderized and not by pounding like in a butcher shop
Pork chops before frying!
It is so easy to surrender...for some it may feel like giving up or giving in.

Giving in or giving up most equate with failure...
The difference is who or what one gives into...
One who gives into another pressing them to join them into sinful or criminal behavior...
Is the only kind of "giving in" that is shameful that one must eventually repent.

Laying down the desire to do it "My way and no way else!"
Allowing God to choose where to send them by not making they plans so definite that they cannot respond to God in an instant when HE wants to place their steps along a detour a little side journey along the way!

It is these little things that make life fun and interesting which we must embrace as they befall us...
Otherwise we could be resisting receiving the gifts we have planted, watered, asked and prayed for...
For possibly a very long time...

Changes we resist could be our hearts greatest desires full filled that we never receive only because as our hearts kept kneeling...
Our minds stayed too fixed on our plans that we miss God and our hearts desires missed are snatched by the deceiver.

The salty burn of repercussions of our words and the words of others who push away their own hearts desire...  Are you too salty?  Are you a heavy weight?  Are you a heavy shaker or a tenderizer with a gentle nature?

Our Words Always Matter...For Every Word We Speak is Either Building or Tearing Down Something Good & Pure... Our Anger Could Be Building the Dominion of the Evil One WE are Complaining of and do not Even REalize It!

Regardless where you and I are on any given day...each one of us are building contractors building something near us and far away...as far as our words travel each day!

How Much Salt Is Enough? How Much is Too Much?

When we walk through any grocery store,
                  every aisle has every shelf covered with salty stuff....

Cans of salt with anything imaginable added....
                From green beans to red kidney beans... yellow wax beans and even pole beans can be Purchased with every can of salt.

Some cans of corn chowder or chicken & Vegetable soup contain as much as 980 or more milligrams of it.

We are not called to be salters or shakers of salt....but salt of the earth itself!

We are not to add the salt of harshness to the bruises and wounds of neighbors or friends.

We are to speak honeycomb words that heal bodies,  souls and minds...
             And when we decrease the salt in or diets we shall find...
That our temperaments and thresholds of what we can endure and and triumph over... for & through The Lord...
             Shall increase as we become Esthers, Jacobs and Victors through the trails of trials and challenges.
               Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

Do You Stir Up Healing or Pain? Are You One Who Always Complains of THe Same??

Not only do we have the power to change lives within our world...
We do so every day whether we realize it our not;
The question is.... Are the changes we ourselves bringing about for the better or detriment of those who our   words are spoken to or about?

It is possible to be honest without being harsh, even in unusual circumstances...
When we do not want to condone the poor choice or behavior of someone who is truly sorry and repenting.

We can choose not to rub salt in wounds to burn even deeper...
We can choose to speak of the future... Next time you will do better...I know you will!

When we choose to focus not on past injuries but still bringing them to light so the pain may be released...
Then go onto multiple lives are set free to improve and grow...and have their territories expanded...
Just like Jabez who after growing through his life depressed he caused his mother pain...

He opened his mouth, called upon GOD asking HIM to bless him indeed, expand his territory and to keep HIS hand upon him that he may never again cause pain....

GOD granted this request and instead of remaining in pain...
Jabez found freedom from the bondage of a bad memory.

Likewise as we mature with age, let us never fear to take on or give another a new name!
All people become what they are called this is why GOD changed the name of so many giving them new names that allowed them to rise above the circumstances into which they were born.

Let us all call others and ourselves to a greater awareness of what comes out of our mouths.
Let our goal each day be to be conscious of our words and choose our words with both love and FAITH!

Let each of us strive to gracefully create good things in each and every soul we meet and greet along every street or road!

You can you cany can can...be a Jacob or Esther too...and you always are when your words you kindly and prayerfully choose!

EstherStephanada!

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Why is it That So Many Folks Have Difficulty Being Happy Embracing Life as Who They Are and Instead Live Their Lives As a Fictional Somebody?

Subject: Why is it That So Many Folks Have Difficulty Being Happy Embracing Life as Who They Are and Instead Live Their Lives As a Fictional Somebody?

How is it regardless who you meet along most every street... you may have to be acquainted with them a year or more before ever seeing beyond a fictional character that they play day in day out...   On the REAL LIFE STAGE and PLATFORM!


Just every day morning to night from the moment the alarm bell rings!

No wonder so many folks are under slept, under fed, and are often losing their head... SPITTING FIRE from their mouths because...

It takes great effort and hard work to maintain a false life or false image, than to simply be ones smiling, laughing, joyful, happy, and kind encouraging self!

Why protect a false image or fictional person anyway?

What is the pay off for you?  Why do you?


Blessings to you as you embrace your reality that you are a wonderful person and a blessing to know, but only when you are your self! And when you do you are salt for those who meet you...for they likewise will not only love and trust you more...

They too will relax upon getting to know you and they will be themselves too and both of you together can begin spreading a Love Revelation in your homes, schools, work places and communities at large...

Though this must start first within each individual's heart!!

I EstherStephanada and my Billy-Jacob challenge you to be the first!!   You can do it!!!  It is a simple choice...it begins simply by choosing to genuinely give your smile away!!  Doing so can change your life and the lives of so so so many!


EstherStephanada!

We Must Be Careful to Not Speak Falsehood, nor Mislead for the Sake of Kindness

Often we have all heard the phrase "Oh, that was only a white lie."

However, falsehood is always false and never can be interpreted as truth.

When anyone tells a lie to not hurt another person's feelings...we actually hurt them far worse than speaking the truth.

First, even those we think are not very smart or lack intelligence, they still recognize when they are being lied to!

Not in every situation will they know the truth that they are being deprived of, but they recognize when they have been lied to.

All that is derived from one's lie is not shielding anyone from pain, but inflicting the pain of fear and distrust in both the speaker who "told a white lie"...at best
but chances are their trust possibly in many around associated with that speaker who were once loved...now are suspected...

And now the person whose feeling one thought he were sparing becomes skeptical and leery of everyone within the same circle of friends or associates.

Associates is a far more appropriate word, for anyone who tells one lie..another is coming out quick behind it to cover the first.
So it is impossible for a habitual liar to have true friends because to have a friend one must be a friend... and how can a habitual liar ever be loyal to even his friend.

Those who must hide behind masks do so because their true selves are not acceptable.  They have no true friends, but only those who are their partners in deceit.

And where are such folks leading HIS little ones?

We are all being watched by someone... someone who may be lost; someone who is searching.  We are all being copied having someone to many following our foot steps.....

To where are your choices leading others to the same you have chosen.....  To Heaven...or to Hell!

How Do You Handle a Conversation Between Hot-Headed Folks You Are Among?

Have you ever found yourself in a situation you certainly were not expecting to happen;
One say with your spouse and another couple?

You possibly aware that both your spouse and your friend's spouse both have some faults...
One maybe way out of line, and the other close to out of control....

Do you know how to maintain the peace without compromising one's values and without disrespecting the marriage of the couple you and your spouse is with and at the same time backing your own spouse not dividing either marriage?

We must all set boundaries that protect the covenant of ones own marriage....
For each man is to only have eyes for his own wife...

Scripture says that if a man simply looks at another man's wife he has committed adultery in his heart!

We are to cast down imaginations and it helps not to go out and about without ones own spouse...
No man who ever really loved his own wife when he first married ever "Falls out of love"...

No, he just neglects to fertilize the seeds he sowed when he said before GOD and men:
"I Do I Do I Do take you for my lawful wedded wife!"
And begins to fertilize the wrong field!

A man must be very careful being friendly with his friend's wife... for when he crosses the line...
It will be too late...and he could find himself really alone ...
No wife! No Friend! And could even lose his very soul...

Losing not only a best friend and his own wife...but any and all sin seperate us from GOD

For the end times are here and now and Jesus just may pass such a man by for the very last time!
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EstherStephanada!