COLD or FLU... LOST for SURE? RENT>>> IS THAT AGAIN DUE?? WH AT ABOUT GAS F ORGET THE PAS T... LET's GET RE-NEWED!

Have You ever awakened on one of those days ...
  You knew was a comin along...  but you thought you may hold it off...  just a few more days a few more days... 

Maybe it won't come at all!!!

HEEE HHEE  He HA HA...  Gotcha now a voice says within your head...
But you have no need to fear if our Lord Jesus and HIS Daddy Yaweah.... is your best best best of FRIEND...

For HIS Holy Word promises to not only give us our needs but also provides our seed.

HE promises to give us rest and peace that surpasses all understanding...
But we must let HIM!
So hubby has yet to be hired....  and gasoline is in short supply...

You remember what happened the last time in this predicament...
Let's tell that devil also Bye Bye...

Let's choose to be Esthers and Jacobs who never let GOD go until HE delivers...  The promises of not only our provisions...
     also our heart's desire...

We do that by keeping the vision of our dreams for ourselves and each other in the front of our hearts and minds...

Speaking out loud to them and of them like in Isaiah 55... as though they already exist... and...

They shall become!

That is how GOD created all... including us...  HE SPOKE and man and woman came forth...

As did all creation and all that HE does in through and for us today...

Someone bold enough to be an Esther .... to be a Jacob...
   a Jeremiah chooses to not only see buds blooming in the midst of  a bitter cold winter... in which he has no shelter today but does tomorrow because he chose to see it before it was...

and at last...  Yes, we Gustavson's because we chose not to be limited by our physical surroundings...

Though living in our van in the cold... we continue to see ourselves in a large cozy portion of a house surrounded by loving neighbors nearby...
With sunshine on our shoulders as we wake seeking and greeting HIM early in the morning.

Sure enough one Sunday morning after our marriage on attack once again.... 
at Holy Name of Jesus Catholic Church in Indialantic Florida;
These divisive spirits were actually both part of their hospitality and welcoming committees...

Women not just one on the prowl for any man...  not caring that he's married...  rules are different to some these days...
    A man who claimed to have a wife... she was never with him....
Spoke insultingly to my husband....
      but such that I did not see or hear it....

Then comes around chatting with me... and if that had been all it could possibly been bearable!

But when a man keeps coming around me tapping and patting my back at my neck
as I try to eat refreshments...muffins at the table....

Now it became dust shaken time... no longer a place to socialize or continue to be kind!

Mother Teresa wrote a poem that said:
    "If you are kind... some folks will question your motives... but be kind anyway!
     If you are generous some folks will cheat us... but we are to be generous anyway"
  
Though this is true the way as Christians we are called to live...
When the hand causes one to sin it is time to cut it off....
   and RUN!

So we ran out of that church as fast as we could.... and called
Pastor Carl Wallace's Methodist Church who we had found online on another day searching soup kitchens feeding the homeless!


On that great Sunday in January 2010.... We were joyfully invited by Pastor's wife to come join their congregation for a most wonderful generous lasagna dinner!


We were were given plenty to eat and drink... but most importantly...
We were and are loved by them!

Love is not just for an hour or for a day...
It is not a feeling one feels when they receive a Sonshiney smile...
or kindness ... though that is part of the benefits love brings~

No, Love is a decision one makes that they never waiver from...
A decision one makes about how they will always treat every human being GOD brings along their daily path!

Such decision to always treat all people with loving kindness, generosity of spirit we all were designed by GOD that to Love be our natural way of living.

To love always, never losing heart will cover a multitude of sin...
Yet when another causes division within a marriage we must cut them off and pray for them that GOD draw them to HIMSELF...

In the case of family members whether parents, sisters or brothers...
We cannot allow can limit their contacts with us~
Not allowing them to divide;

Though our hearts must continue to love them and pray for them from afar~

Sending prayerful and kind email....  postal letters from time to time!

One does not need to give their phone number to a family friend who cannot themselves be appropriate....

For loving 70X7 simply means forgiving them in your heart... carrying them spiritually in ones heart.

We must at times have boundaries to keep our marriages pure and peaceful~

Though we can find ways to encourage and love those who have never learned to love...

Their conversion of heart however...  must come from within themselves led, driven, and a new heart in place of their stoney ones must come from HIM up above!!

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

EstherStephanada here saying you through HIM alone...  You can love the unlovable.....  just not alone!