We Have Many Tasks Each Day .. Including Following Up on Our Food Stamp Application....But Amidst All When We Seek HIM First All Else Is Added Unto Us

July 29, 2013

 

We like all of you...have had many challenges both with sickness in our bodies that often cause difficulty in working enough hours for a wage to provide basic needs.

 

After honestly reporting a bit of income in the month of January which was immediately spent paying old bills that were mostly grocery bills we had run on charge accounts instead of taking the abusive incompassionate scrutiny of our own Catholic Saint Vincent De Paul...

 

The Food Stamp Office actually cancelled our Food Stamps and even though William had been unhealthy unable to work for months that followed...and even before health became an issue...there is too much jealousy and hatred for us...that because we live as every human being was created to and refuse to "sin even a little bit"  to become one of the Saint Joseph Majority Crowd in Ponchatoula...

 

We still try to hide and keep our distance from an abundance of angry jealous ones who instead of accepting our love and being transformed by our love...yesterday instead of attacking William I was clobbered by an angry jealous young mother sitting behind us...

 

Her daughters looked on in absolute horror & shock of what their mother did before their very eyes....as I said to my husband "come on honey that was done on purpose..."

And so we moved to the far back of the church content to even stand the entire Mass if that is what is required to receive the Holy Sacraments among wolves pretending to be obedient loving sheep.

 

This woman at the time had the entire pew behind us which was the very back pew of the church in front of the cry room to herself and her children.

 

The Holy Mass had only just begun we had just sat down after opening prayers....to hear the first reading read to us.

 

This mother's daughters though they chattered a bit...I think one girl was a friend...of her eldest girl and not her daughter.

For not only did these two enjoy each other much more than sisters that young ever do..typically twins would fight not have fun together..

 

But how did a sister manage to receive the gift of such a sweet dress while the other was stuck in tight vulgar pants like the jealous mother on the attack strutting her vulgar mouth as well as her hip bone in clothes so tight revealing her exact shape...

 

You know my husband said to me later: "She did that because you wear a veil and a dress."

 

I said to him..".I am not going to conform myself to her or them just so that maybe we won't be abused next week."

 

Living righteously is difficult enough even if one is not so ferociously attacked as we.

 

Often it is difficult to make the best choice.

 

But one thing is true and will always remain true and that is if we seek God first with all of our hearts.

 

When we put our relationship with HIM our priority as soon as we open our eyes....seeking first HIS Kingdom all other things will be added unto us...

 

Well William nor I could find the address of the Tangipohoa Parish Food Stamp Office in our paper work or online.

 

After going to the State Website and placing our parish in....I guess the site had issues today...

 

So I decided...I will look up the address of the Catholic Church there...maybe we can go to Holy Mass out there for a change since we must find the Food Stamp Office anyway...they never mailed our Card that should have a "whopping $16.00 on it"

 

So after locating the St Helena Holy Catholic Church at 122 South First Street Amite Louisiana 70422, I then searched the web instead of with term "Tangipahoa Food Stamp Office" I searched:  "Government Offices 70422"

 

And what did God give me but the address of that office and other government offices just down the street from Holy Mass located at "606 South First Street"

 

So what does this teach us and you?

 

Let us not be growled up with the burdens and concerns....but to let our Lord really carry the yoke of burden of our lives...we must seek HIM starting our first wakened moment...

We must let HIM steer our day...

We must not run ahead of HIM at any time...

 

And spiritually those who exit the church before the procession crucifix and the priest have completely exited the sanctuary..

They do just that...they themselves are leading themselves and anyone else who pitifully follow them.

 

And they are the ones who are like the inappropriate mother of many daughters...who are disgruntled, frustrated and angry and wonder why God has not provided for them.

 

God cannot provide for those who pridefully go before HIM and do not humbly wait upon HIM...how can anyone see and hear a shepherd who is behind them because they took control from the God the only one who has the ability to provide all needs and to lead in perfect harmony.

 

Let us seek HIM first  letting HIM go before us and listen to HIM obediently that we will not stumble, get caught in briars of arrogance and hate...

But joyfully let us follow HIM and HE will make HIS home in us and HIS peace that surpasses all understanding will guard and guide us as HE provides for us.

 

And HIS peace and calm will be ours....it is also called:  Serenity.

 

Amen

 

 

 

 

Mr & Mrs William Gustavson

PO BOX 1144

Ponchatoula, LA  70454