Have You Ever Felt Alone and Isolated In Spite of Efforts of Kindness?

This is an evil age demanding all things except for righteousness.

Have you found your choices to reject sin and call those whom you call friends to a higher level of FAITH & righteousness?

We are all called to live a sinless life and often in order to keep our own consciences pure and clean....when others refuse to take correction when corrected privately, then with another sister or brother....and correction then required in front of an assembly of many still does not bring about a proper and positive change in a sinner's behavior...such a person scripture says must be cut off and treated as an unbeliever.

Though those who allow such a person to continue in their sin against them are not showing them mercy...
On the contrary condoning ones despicable sinful behavior is owning that man's sin...

For scripture instructs us to "DISPEL ALL EVIL FROM OUR MIDST"
Guilt by association it is also called in some places.

It is very hard to endure the loneliness of a righteous life....Jesus even said so!

They tried to kill HIM several times....trying to toss HIM off the cliff because in HIS presence HIS perfection made them see their own sinfulness next to HIM....Their flesh hurt!

Jesus however in HIS isolation never compromised HIS position with anyone in order to be liked and accepted.

HE went on to say that HE has come not for unity but division...mother against daughter, father against son.....friends will no longer be friends but foes!

As Mother Angelica has always said:  "We are all....every one of us called to be GREAT SAINTS!!  
We who accept loneliness and isolation instead of compromising with evil...

Those who open their mouth to not let an evil one abuse or run over HIS little ones with his position, power or authority...those who speak out when others fail in their duties to the distress and oppression over HIS little ones....

These shall be raised by GOD they shall receive their crown for their tears...To you, all of you I say:  "Hold ON to HIM...it's not much longer...Hold onto HIS peace which surpasses all understanding!"

We, however, who accept and embrace isolation and loneliness for HIS righteousness sake...shall be great saints...

 Jesus is going to arrive possibly the next time you take your car out for a drive...or as you walk through your neighborhood up or down the street to tomorrows senior lunch club meeting....you may find yourself meeting Our Lord Jesus Christ for your last time.

Those HE finds  compromising HIS Gospel or Commandments so that they can eat free lunch again and again without as many bumpty bruises ...battle scars for HIS righteousness...

Will find themselves sifted off from the wheat and thrown in the fiery furnace...
In spite of possibly living right their entire lives until these end times....

Scripture says that even some theologians will not get into heaven because they become weary and fail to feed a hungry one or give cool water, not tepid to a thirsty dying one as they are too busy about many things they think are for GOD...

This world as we know it shall not be much longer...

HE is coming back so very soon...

Through the ages many to most have compromised their beliefs and their own standards in order to keep peace in groups they want to be in.

What I have never been able to understand, is why does anyone desire to be a part of a group who's attitudes and choices are below and not equal to or above one's own.

All of our mommas said every day as we grew up:  "The grass is greener on the other side" meaning why choose to want only what you cannot have?

Why not embrace where we are and what we have been blessed with with joy, FAITH and gladness.   It could always be worse so many mommas in the neighborhood would say...

None of us can stand or walk in both realms at once.  No one can serve two masters either...you will love one and hate the other....

So sister...brother...why go back and forth between what is right and wrong.  
Why even try to stagger in both realms at once...  You certainly will not enjoy being chased down by HIS MIRACLES!

Our Lord Jesus said: "If they hate ME they will hate you!  So we rejoice with the apostles that our lives, love FAITH and commitment is worthy of their hatred for HIS Name sake!

We are not ever blue but wear blue SING SING SING NEW and you will be joyous too!

In This HOT HOT SUMMER...Even if There Nothing To COOL You...

Need not let your heart bleed....or dip low...

Just because the HEAT IS HERE and threatens your life by making your pressure RISE HIGH...

Keep your eyes on Almighty GOD even if new air conditioners are not exactly in financial reach for thee.

Let not your heart be troubled when those who should love you the most are not compassionate but criticize you or your husband.

The Lord Himself told us the very sad TRUTH to expect to see...

There are some folks who HE bled and died for who will never choose to love and push love away from themselves...

Bruising the hearts of those who want to love them as they cut off their own noses to spite their faces.

Given the opportunity to share their surplus with their own friend, brother, son or daughter....with joy...
But instead of passing along a blessing with words that heal....they use words that hurt and cause pain...

Cutting off the opportunity for their seed to be multiplied and relationships bloom unceasingly!

It may be hard not to let yourself become blue...when it's the relationship not the physical need you requested of them that means the most.

Sometimes we must step back, laugh that the HEAT has come!  For words can burn and cause permanent scars in hearts where hot temperatures only in body for a little while...

But unkind words that judge divide ones self from whom one loves.
A house, a family divided will never stand...It's doors will never open frequently for no one will enjoy entering only to experience anger and bitterness.

So wear blue without being blue...CHOOSE well and stay wet and cool ....I do...So can you!!!
EstherStephanada!

Alone Yesterday...Today and Think Tomorrow and The Next will Be Just The Same?

You need not be blue...you can wear blue without being blue if you choose...
You can however choose to rejoice and be glad about something...

Even if you must really practice searching out your heart, within your mind and neighborhood.

You can also couple your choice to change the way you look at your world around you...

You may in your yard today if you live in the same hemisphere as me and are experiencing spring...

You may have flowers growing..springing up before your eyes

Maybe roses, camellias lilies or irises ....

You may have never planted a garden or seeds of any kind in your life before now...

If you go out and seek what is alive before you and among you,
You will be surprised ...You shall see things you never saw before....because you never took the time to notice.

You may like me have wild flowers popping  in places some folks may say they should not be like growing to close to your house foundation or under and both sides of your fences...

You possibly complained about them for years...
Today Good Friday let us look for the life amongst our own death and darkness which has clouded our hearts, minds and eyes that we could not see the light and find pleasure in simple blessings!

Our Lord wanted to remain more intimately among and within us all...so on Holy Thursday which we observed yesterday HE gave us HIS Body and Precious Blood...
To eat and drink that we may always be in union with HIM at all times...
Strength for our journey our direction and guide...Our Good Shepherd...

Before HE the next day....today....suffered and died.
Regardless how many years it has been that you have stayed within the confines and darkness of your past sins....

Regardless how serious, your past transgressions....or how long it may have been since you came out of your house to smile at your neighbor...

Even if everyone who has ever known you thinks and says that you are a grouchy grinch...and too old to change...too old to love now...

Anyone can wake up and choose to sing and rejoice and to bless...
Be not concerned about who will think what...

Even Mother Teresa wrote a poem saying that if you are kind some will question your motives but be kind anyway!

If we consider what others think and let that influence our choices we give them the power to hold us in the darkness of our past...

WE...you and I must purposely choose to BREAK OUT of the prison of our own..
 making!
We must wake up singing new songs..

Today instead of pulling up those dandelions and other wild life growing up from your land....and tossing them into the trash to be burned or carted to a city dump.

Cut and trim them nice and place them in vases with love!

If you do not have flower vases anywhere in your house...not even in the back of a cabinet covered with inches of dust or even rust to brush and wash off...

I am certain you have containers of some kind in your home not made especially for flowers, but have no holes so they can hold water...

So lets transform what we have with time and love!

Wash up whatever you have and make life arrangements of love....
Place one in your own home and distribute the rest to your neighbors with bright Sonshiney smiles today with love!

If your neighbor has been your neighbor for years and you have either never met or ignored them for years...
You may find out that your next door neighbor has been just as lonely and depressed as you...
Your action in sharing wild flowering love...
Will open their heart life and world at the same time as your own...To the real light of the World...Jesus Christ whose tomb we observe today anticipating HIS Resurrection...which shall be ours too...

Only when we choose to reach outside of ourselves and not only receive HIM...but share HIM with each and everyone possible who is in our midst...So together right now after you have read this...Run for the life that is wild amongst you...and share with one another!

Blessings!

EstherStephanada!

When You Seek Someone To See Eye to Eye With You.....But Not Even Mom Seems to Love You...

All of us from time to time fell a little blue....

And want a good friend...or even our Momma to talk to...

But what if your Momma never sees eye with you...

What if your Momma never has an encouraging word for you??

Well you need not ever let da blues come over you...
Nor let yourself acquire her attitude!

Many of your neighbors may be no different than your Momma or your Pop...
But that does not mean...that you must follow along...
You need not choose the same lifestyle as they...

You can aspire to greater things...like finding joy in all things...
Speaking words of honeycomb....never grunting groaning....criticisms ...

But rather choosing to build others with words that encourage...
And lets not set ourselves up to be blue...

Let us make healthy choices and avoid those toxic folks that each one of us know...
Even if it means changing ones phone number and not giving it out.

There are many ways to set boundaries for those who refuse to be kind...

You and I just need to make a decision and enforce those boundary lines!

You can choose to be a leader...You can choose to live with a positive vibrant attitude....
You and I can do all things with, through and for Jesus Christ!!

Keep on smiling....and singing new songs!

For HE never uses voice mail....HE is with you day and night and through out your life...
When friends and family fail...
Almighty GOD Father, Son and Holy Spirit...The Big Three in One!!

So you now know what you and I need to do and keep on doing...
So now...GO FORTH! Go Do it!! Dooooooooii It!!

And The Blues will never come over or under you!

Blessings!

EstherStephanada!

Iced Down and Packed In....You Too Can Grin Ear to Ear and Cheer....

You need not let the blues come to or over you...

If you like my Billy-Jacob and me wake to find your exterior doors will not even open...
Your fruit trees both snow and ice coated...

Why leave the television on and listen to the constant repeat of the same story which you nor I need to be told...

Remember we have eyewitnessaccount at our own front and back doors!

Horray the nerve conduction study by neurologist scheduled for this morning....like all flights around the world have either been cancelled, delayed, or grounded somewheres else!
a man
Let us give Thanks and Praise for our GOD has given each man, woman and child still alive on earth this moment frozen in order that each may contemplate within HIM what is truly important and re-prioritize all things...

And allow ourselves to become soft puddy within the Divine Master Sculpter's Hands.

Usually when man makes his plans and GOD tries to place his steps in another direction...
By having another cancel an appointment or rescedule...such a man imediately tries to fill that spot with another "punch-crunch" fleshy work...

Where as GOD had purposely carved that down time out for HIMSELF!

So since we have failed to "Pray Always"... Since in all our ways through out each day we have not been mindful of HIM...have not embraced prayerfully all that has befalled us...have not let Him place our steps in HIS chosen direction that along HIS path not ours HE may bless others through us and us through them...

That we and all those whom HE chooses for us to meet and greet along each of HIS chosen streets...

May enjoy HIS most fruitful and best part...which is that when we surrender our control to HIM...when we choose what HE yearns for us to choose...

Whatever hapens, even if it seemsto be caused by our choice...if we followed HIS inspirations and desire...any consequence is HIS responsibility not ours to clean up!

Until "The World Ends" as we know it, there will always be those envious angry ones who will object and threaten us who seek only GOD's Face and HIS Glory...

So Praise GOD for stormy days and stormy nights....For they give HIM more work to do for and through us....as we get to trust and seek HIM more deeply and sweetly...

Even if some of us needed HIM to snow us in and ice us down to cool our tempers and slow down both our bodies mind and hearts, that HE can commune again in each...

That together in one accord in HIM and HE in us....PRESSING On will no longer be drudgery or tough...For HIS yoke is easy and HIS burden light but only when we give HIM the reins and not us!

So PRAISE GOD Give HIM Cheers! Packed in and Iced down we can grin and enjoy...never scoul or frown!

Praise GOD!

EstherStephanada!