tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43858858259114474612024-10-02T10:41:44.376-04:00Most states do not license Opticians... Those folks we all bring our prescriptions for either eye glasses or contacts to... AND SOME of the STATES that DO are trying to DROP this practice to SAVE MONEY at the EXPENSE OF YOUR LIVES AND OURS!! SO DO YOUR EYES HAVE IT??? or ARE YOU & YOUR NIEGHBORS WALKING & DRIVING BLIND???Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-41800620068449868062014-01-11T08:43:00.001-05:002019-04-28T13:46:24.304-04:00<div dir="ltr"> Realizing this will post today's date April 28 2019, I found this in drafts unpublished....but it was composed January 2014<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> How is it that I who lived 49 years in almost physical darkness could even then see the obvious before all physically &nbsp;sighted folks still refuse to acknowledge but continue to ignore the truth that has stared them in their faces their entire lives but they refuse to accept into their hearts which are tender ; loving...<br /> <div> <br /></div> <div> And therefore they refuse to acknowledge callousness within anyone they love...</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> So they ignore for a few weeks visit until they can return to their palaces high upon hills remote from true family interactions of those who deceive.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> When anyone is not content &amp; happy in their own life with their own wife...it is typically because their hearts have voids that only the one true <span class="">Triune</span> God can fill.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Because they do not have God living &amp; reigning in their hearts and lives they are not satisfied regardless how much they own or how much control they have in choosing for themselves...they need to fell powerful to feel important because they have never in their 70...80 sometimes 90 years of life have never loved because they have not received true love in their hearts for a first time not even from themselves or each other.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> They equate: love, happiness, and success all rolled up in one ideal which is : POWER!</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> POWER to control...POWER to attain, take or force upon others what they want....</div> <div> And this is not a love relationship at all.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> It is not even a relationship of any kind but a plain and simple attack of oneself upon others.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> When ever anyone is not content and happy in their own life and they meet a couple such as William &amp; I who never suffer strife of any kind until someone outside of our marriage sometimes a geographical neighbor, a cousin or an uncle....sometimes even members of our own Catholic Church Family</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Look at us camping and going from place to place in their estimations: &nbsp;"Enjoying life too much...much more than them!!!" &nbsp;</div> <div> And so their backs go up in anger because they have their employment positions they must report to...they must WORK and meet deadlines on time!</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Or they have small children they are responsible for who they see themselves tied&nbsp;down.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> They think "<span class="">IT's</span> NOT FAIR that you just bop from State Park to grocery &amp; church parking lots....</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> That is how Jesus Christ &amp; HIS apostles lived sort of...</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> During the last 3 years of the Lord's life...HIS ministering years he &amp; HIS disciples walked all day towards each new destination embracing whatever happened or befell them along their way with a gift they were giving to each one who was bold enough to embrace and receive into their hearts with great joy, love, thanksgiving...and receive the gift of trusting FAITH.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Each who chose to receive God's best received MIRACLES and they like us when they went out to all whom they loved were either joyfully received &amp; received the same spiritual gifts or the absolute opposite were totally rejected and told that they were too different to be a part of the <span class="">clicky</span> friends group or <span class="">clicky</span> "Blood Relative Family group</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> This is what scriptures mean that say: &nbsp;"If they hate ME they will hate you...but blessed or you who are scoffed and hated just because of ME...blessed blessed are you!!!"</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Blessed, Blessed are my William and I when others including father &amp; mother...neighbors uncle and many cousins...</div> <div> Out of jealousy for they have never in their lives had the peace that surpasses all understanding reign in their personal households at any time.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> We have been told to rent another apartment, but my husband &amp; I refuse to ever sign another lease or to live where others have keys and authority over us and where we live.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Although our home loan was not approved we are applying to other avenues and meanwhile we will visit a friend for a "little while" and William will help the father of the household set up and establish his own "Handyman Business". &nbsp;William promises to teach him job costing, estimating, and even refining his carpentry skills.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> And we will live in their home during this undefined length period...</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> This is God's plan for giving William experience doing what he will teach inmates and former inmates in the not so distance future.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> There are many who oppose what we do...but before they knew us...</div> <div> Even my mother and father despised Jesus before they gave birth to me.... their only daughter who was not born into life but born into death, resuscitated born with many challenges both physical and mental</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> And how is it that they today cannot receive into their hearts the joy that I was physically blind &amp; now I see landscapes and full length drapes.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Yet they instead of sharing in our joy and peace rather cling to their self-righteousness which allows them to remain in their own minds superior.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> William &amp; I cannot choose for them.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Nor can you choose for your neighbor, sister, brother, mother father aunt uncle or cousin.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> It is better to grieve their choices for just a little while...</div> <div> Move on to the next place just as Jesus and HIS disciples did...and offer the next community the same: &nbsp;The gift of joy, hope love and the peace that <span class="">surpasses</span> all understanding...</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> just as the Lord did...remembering the next community too may likewise not want us among them too.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> But we will refuse to be blue...wear blue instead.</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> And from the moment we wake up on our cot within our Bloody Red Montana Van in his parks</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> It is all paid for!!</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Yeah Amen!</div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> Today I still&nbsp; live&nbsp; not using credit.&nbsp; <br /> <br /> The borrower is always the slave to the lender.<br /> <br /> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br /></div> <div> <br clear="all" /> <div> <div dir="ltr"> <div> Mr &amp; Mrs William <span class="">Gustavson</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-71899061515404548712013-09-21T10:30:00.001-04:002013-09-21T10:30:01.207-04:00<div>Turn around!  Pay Attention!  Your Eyes Aren&#39;t Put Out And They Aren&#39;t in Back of Your Head!</div> <div> </div> <div>I can hear it clearly as loud as it was cackled at me when I was a child and through my teenage years</div> <div> </div> <div>But if you like me..follow the Lord closely obediently...</div> <div>HE remains both before you leading you and behind you defending you from your foes before they can cause you harm...now HIS eyes never miss anything...</div> <div> </div> <div>So whether you or I are not payin attention to what they the fakey flakes or commanding or saying while listening carefully to each of HIS directions to your heart...</div> <div>You are far better off than having lots of sets of eyes security guarding you.</div> <div> </div> <div>And even if you are physically blind like I once was for real...before HE gave me a Eucharistic MIRACLE...</div> <div>Maybe you are using one of those who are fortunate enough to have a computer that is reading this aloud to you...for your eyes are dimming...</div> <div> </div> <div>The One who always was and still is...who sits upon the throne above...watching waiting and listening for you to ask HIM outloud for what is not believing HE is both willing and able to do all things...HE is watching you now waiting for you...So open your mouth now and ask HIM to see...expecting your eyes to be opened NOW...those of you who cannot hear...Hear now...</div> <div> </div> <div>For God&#39;s promises are for all...listen not any longer to the irratable sour graper...</div> <div>But to the only True Vine and Vine Grower...reach out to and you will be glad you acknowledged the &quot;Eyes&quot; that are forever upon you!</div> <div> </div> <div>Amen Amen Amen!<br clear="all"></div> <div> <div>Mr &amp; Mrs William Gustavson</div> <div>PO Box 1144</div> <div>Ponchatoula LA 70454</div></div> Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-90143088410916252432011-06-05T09:37:00.002-04:002011-10-20T15:12:54.373-04:00There is a great chance that you, like me, were told through life:<br /> <br /> "See things for what they really are and not through "Rose Colored Glasses!"<br /> <br /> Or possibly you were accused of having "Tunnel Vision" keeping your focus on only one thing!<br /> <br /> If you have remained focused as I have since small upon what is above and not below...<br /> If you have kept your eyes on HIM whom others have never seen for they lack FAITH and refuse to believe...<br /> <br /> Refuse to see what is not yet but could be and speak of it as though it already is....<br /> That HE who watches over HIS Holy Word spoken with FAITH of mere mustard dust....<br /> <br /> Will perform it for us!<br /> <br /> Tunnel vision of this sort is to be both admired and sought...<br /> For he and she who have obtained such a gift shall never be lost!<br /> <br /> So next time you are accused for singing only one tune and never being blue...<br /> When you are accused of seeing and appreciating what you have and not noticing what you lack...<br /> <br /> Rejoice with me as we dance into The House of The Lord!<br /> Rejoice and coninue to sing HIM new songs even when their complaints hit an uproar!<br /> <br /> And I can even proclaim that I had physical tunnel vision FOR REAL...but no more...<br /> AS I offer HIM and you my laughter and cheer....I PRAISE HIM singing....<br /> <br /> For though I should have been lost for sure ...at no time I ever was!!<br /> <br /> HE did my seeing for me then and I continue to let HIM now...<br /> HE yearns to both see and light your path too...but HE can only if we let HIM!<br /> <br /> <br /> Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-91829977770388030322011-05-15T17:56:00.000-04:002011-05-15T17:56:03.971-04:00Most of us born in the 1960's or earlier, are familiar to the tune...Three Blind Mice...Three Blind Mice...<br /> <br /> SEE HOW THEY RUN....see how they run.....They all ran after the farmers wife...she cut off their tails with a carving knife...<br /> <br /> Well I grew up with two younger brothers who in the eyes of my parents and many others could do no wrong...<br /> <br /> Not that everything any two children did...or do is right...correct or worthy of praise.<br /> <br /> I remember as small children along with the neighborhood children in our Alice Birney classrooms being taught that not all are born with the same ability we were&nbsp;&nbsp;told to make believe that we were totally blind.<br /> <br /> We were of coarse sitting in our desks not standing or playing.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can remember thinking and saying out loud<br /> "This is not much different than when my eyes are open!"<br /> <br /> Everyone laughed!&nbsp; Even the teacher said: "Stephanie that is impossible!"&nbsp; And the comedy show continued!<br /> <br /> It was comedy to everyone but me.&nbsp;&nbsp; I on the other hand from my perspective not able to physically see what others saw...being absolutely clueless what any one saw....I often wondered how do they know what I can see and what I could see not?<br /> <br /> Then when Advent would begin each year we would all sing that song:&nbsp; <br /> "DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE????&nbsp; DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE???&nbsp; A CHILD??? A CHILD SLEEPING IN THE NIGHT...."<br /> <br /> I often wondered how is it that all of these must see what ever it is that I cannot see....Yet they do not seem to see me...?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How is it they say:&nbsp; "Pretend that you cannot see my desk or yours...or the paper which you do your home work on." ?&nbsp; How is it they play make believe and laugh...<br /> <br /> While I experience the same with my eyes open and my heart knows and sees much more than they may ever know.<br /> <br /> On the school bus ride home some of the other children were still playing "Blind Games" many fell down like clowns because they were not paying attention...yet sometimes I would be the one to catch them...<br /> <br /> That they not knock their own teeth out or down their own throat...I never received thank you's from them...<br /> But from The Lord of Hosts.<br /> <br /> Once home my brothers and neighbor children...gathered still laughing at all the "Blind Games"&nbsp; and the record or the cartoon on television would play:&nbsp; "Three Blind Mice...SEE HOW THEY RUN&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;"<br /> <br /> They would walk or run behind one another with their arms extended pretending to be "Sleep Walking" or to be a "Ghost" like on "SCOOBY DOOBY DOooooooooosey"&nbsp; Our Mom would say adding to the play "The Blind leading the blind??"&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> <br /> I would say: "I do it all the time!"&nbsp; She would go on about her house work laughing hysterically hard....saying:<br /> "Stephanie your going to be a comedian one day!"&nbsp; and&nbsp;I would say: "Why what's so funny?"<br /> <br /> She would laugh even harder that she would have to make a MADdddddddd dash to the toilet...<br /> She could really laugh but never hold her bladder.<br /> <br /> No one wanted me on their ball team...a Blind catcher?&nbsp; Blind Pitcher or Batter?<br /> Though no one recognized my physical blindness for what it was...<br /> <br /> When it came to playing" Blind Games or Sleep Walking"&nbsp; I had life long daily minute by minute practice and I must say I had an unseen advantage!<br /> <br /> No one ever noticed that playing these games I had no more accidents than any other time.&nbsp; In fact I had fewer because...I the blind had to lead the blind!<br /> <br /> I became more cautious than usual.&nbsp; It amazes me looking back that not my mother nor anyone else&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ever&nbsp;"SAW WHAT I SAW&nbsp;...or more importantly what I saw not!<br /> <br /> I never "Got" what they did...they just seemed either so ridiculous...stupid or at times even retarded.&nbsp; For they used these very words to describe me...&nbsp; Yet how is it I had the sight of understanding....<br /> <br /> I was accused of telling tall tales that I could be a Gilda Radner!<br /> <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;I am sure that even today these same adults would laugh no differently than they did 40+ years ago at me...<br /> Saying: &nbsp;"You should be on Ed Sullivan Show" and later on....on "HEEEEEEEEeeeeee--HEEEE HAW HAW HAWwwwwwwwwww He-HAW!<br /> <br /> I know that I could have kept them laughing&nbsp;better than Gilda Radner....with out telling big fibbers from a giant rocker....<br /> <br /> AND THAT'S THE TRUTH!&nbsp; <br /> <br /> SO HELP ME GOD!<br /> <br /> EstherStephanada...&nbsp;&nbsp; Leading the Blind!<br /> <br /> Imagine if you were completely blind...for the Word of GOD says the Blind shall see and the sighted be made blind...which shall you be at the end of all time?Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-54231163533179014532011-05-11T18:42:00.000-04:002011-05-13T16:25:40.444-04:00<div>Driving drunk is no different from driving totally BLIND...Nor any different than driving while cell phone chatting or texting....either are a CRIME!</div> <div> </div> <div><br><br> </div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Craig Lloyd, MADD North Carolina</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:craig.lloyd@madd.org">craig.lloyd@madd.org</a>&gt;</span><br> Date: Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:42 PM<br>Subject: One month left until Walk like MADD Charlotte<br><br><br><br> <div> <div style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #e0dfd7; MIN-HEIGHT: 100%; WIDTH: 100%"> <table style="WIDTH: 740px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#17496b" align="center"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img border="0" alt="MADD&#39;s signature walk event" width="740" height="147"> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#17496b"> </td> <td style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="left"><span> <p>Dear Mrs,</p> <p>There is only one month left until we Walk like MADD in Charlotte and we need your support now more than ever. Register yourself or your team for the June 11th walk at Freedom Park today! For those of you who have already registered, consider going the extra mile by inviting some new friends to come out and help you support a worthy cause or make a donation to your team.   It's a great way to spend a Saturday morning with family and friends.</p> <p>Looking for an easy way to raise more money for your team? Here are some simple ideas to enhance your fundraising efforts:</p> <ul> <li>Send out emails through your walk participant center and post on Facebook to invite everyone you know to join your team, make a donation or start their own team.</li> <li>Let your employer know about your participation in Walk like MADD and ask if they have a matching gifts program or other ways to help.</li> <li>Contact us about ideas for quick and easy online community funds you can apply for in your hometown.</li> <li>Host a fundraiser (i.e., car wash or bake sale) to help raise funds for your team.</li></ul> <p>Remember, North Carolina ranks 6th in the country for drunk driving deaths. I can't think of a better way to honor those killed or injured by drunk driving or underage drinking than to help prevent future tragedy.  We cannot continue our life saving mission without the generosity and support from all of you!  </p> <p><a title="Charlotte, NC" href="http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=DL5CLoR4vgN9iOW5cqRcXA.." target="_blank">For more information about the walk, click here</a>. If you have any problems with registration or questions about your team page, contact us at <a href="tel:919-787-6599" target="_blank" value="+19197876599">919-787-6599</a>, and we'll be glad to help you. <br>  <br>We truly appreciate everything you do for MADD.</p> <p>Thank you,<br>Craig Lloyd<br>State Executive Director<br>Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) North Carolina</p> <p>PS:   If you know someone who may be interested in participating but can't attend the event in person, <a title="Charlotte, NC" href="http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=Dka8UKm7DVlhXh1OY7si2w.." target="_blank">you can encourage them to be a virtual walker and participate online</a>.  </p> <p> </p><img width="1" height="1"> </span></td> <td bgcolor="#17496b"> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#17496b" width="25"> </td> <td style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px; PADDING-LEFT: 15px; PADDING-RIGHT: 15px; PADDING-TOP: 15px" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="696" align="left"> <div>MADD National Office | 511 E. John Carpenter Frwy. Suite 700 | Irving, TX 75062<br>You are signed up as <strong><a href="mailto:estherstephanadacan@gmail.com" target="_blank">estherstephanadacan@gmail.com</a></strong> to receive updates from MADD.<br> <a href="http://support.madd.org/site/R?i=mLr_HXonFZ1GrfwgexE7HQ.." target="_blank">Change your email preferences »</a> | <a href="http://support.madd.org/site/CO?i=YevNvelSherzVnZe33sjOvwBm-7Wt0Gl&amp;cid=0" target="_blank">Unsubscribe »</a></div> </td> <td bgcolor="#17496b" width="18"> </td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#17496b"> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><br> Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-54066032224041767392010-11-24T12:27:00.004-05:002010-11-24T12:55:36.495-05:00Sometimes one does not know what they have been missing until GOD opens either their eyes, their ears...and heart...or all three.<br /><br />When one lives life from birth not being able to see but a range of vision between the size of a nickel or a quarter...not able to judge distances at all...<br /><br />How can he or she, like me...enjoy a sunrise or sunset as it's meant to be?<br /><br />How does one have the concept of a mountain range...whether The Smokies or Appalachians ...<br />If one cannot even see one entire mountain in one simultaneous view but needs to move one's eyes just to see parts of only one?<br /><br />I remember through out my life at all sorts of ages...being hit by cars, trucks and even once almost<br />sucked up under a bus by <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">centrifical</span> force.<br /><br />I remember once a single mother way back in the early 80's when my son who is now 29 years old...but then was between 5 and 10...<br /><br />My son &amp; I would hold hands singing new songs joyfully as we would walk and skip along sidewalks...<br /><br />And often it was he who would hold me back as a speeding car or truck went by!<br /><br />Not because I was not paying attention...for I would spend much time and take caution...<br />But when ones total range of vision is not even the size of a quarter...<br /><br />It is impossible to see all things...hence why all my life until GOD healed and opened my eyes...<br />My entire body was all bruised up!<br /><br />I recall as a child when I would get to swim with my brothers anywhere...my father calling me out of the pool and when I would come running he would say: "Turn around!" "Again!" <br /><br />Making me feel saddened as he and the men would count my band-aids and laugh...then he would send me away!<br /><br />But never in my life did anyone take me serious when I would fall or trip on something... "But I did not see it!"<br /><br />"Why don't you watch where you are going and often I would get popped or slapped for being careless...."When are you going to learn anything?"<br /><br />So now I have experienced my first <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">panorama</span> photos and roadside views...of mountaintops and meadows and now can even see you! Your whole face at one time that is!<br /><br />You too never need be blue no matter what you face or what challenges you!<br /><br />No matter how difficult a task...when we Seek GOd's Face from early morn till dark...HE will carry us!<br /><br />Blessings!<br /><br />EstherStephanada!Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-23262540647946749662010-07-27T13:19:00.000-04:002010-07-27T13:19:35.346-04:00Do you have eyes that can see the pain inside another's heart...<br /> <br /> &nbsp;Eyes that never turn away from pain;<br /> But show love and kindness to those in need or who are hurting possibly grieving from great loss...<br /> <br /> Eyes that transfer strength and hope to one who is lost?<br /> <br /> Sometimes when we take the time to slow down to feel another's pain and lift them up that they nor one-self will ever be the same....<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br /> <br /> We receive much more than we give... we receive the heart of a new friend.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Friendships and relationships are the only things that survive death... soon and very soon there will be no time left.<br /> <br /> So make sure your relationships are good, worthy to be admired for you do not want to spend Eternity in Eternal Fire!<br /> <br /> <br /> EstherStephanada!Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-50434827167932444592010-07-09T16:28:00.007-04:002010-12-02T19:31:49.193-05:00<div class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowzdXPFmzX6-k4f67GC8NxDBRGozEEEolgXzysnB9t5FSPgM9ke7dtTDVdIZCBfRI9joqqniWltN7sXd84Tas6-mJ8rct-zx_7vZN0NJYIfpzsmseSkx7Xqa3gubcNLmxn5nHshXI4Mk/s1600/Billy-Jacob+%26+EstherStephanadaDatingJanFeb1997-711495.jpg"><img alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5492006083676425858" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowzdXPFmzX6-k4f67GC8NxDBRGozEEEolgXzysnB9t5FSPgM9ke7dtTDVdIZCBfRI9joqqniWltN7sXd84Tas6-mJ8rct-zx_7vZN0NJYIfpzsmseSkx7Xqa3gubcNLmxn5nHshXI4Mk/s320/Billy-Jacob+%26+EstherStephanadaDatingJanFeb1997-711495.jpg" border="0" /></a>EstherStephanada Very happy with her future husband in February 1997.</div><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">I RECEIVED GREAT EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE IN YOUR MASS TODAY! ST JOSEPH's CHURCH PALM BAY FLORIDA 9:45 MASS FEAST of The HOLY FAMILY</b></div><div>------------------------</div><div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Stephie Gustavson</b> </span></div><br /></div><div> <span style="font-size:medium;">Sunday December 27, 2009</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Feast of The Holy Family</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Dear Fr. Dennis! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Or would you rather be called "Father Clearly" ?? For I can SEE MORE .... And MORE CLEARLY than ever in my life!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">The lives of anyone who both Knows and Loves GOD has Miracles chasing them down and all around where ever they go!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am sure your life is not an exception... I write you not to brag about myself.... But rather HIS Written Word says: "Let the redeemed of the Lord Say So! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And what GOD has done for me to even keep me alive to this day that I may even be alive still today, that I may have walked into ST Joseph's for your MASS, received Communion on my tongue as I have my entire life....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Today, I am almost a half a century I am.... 49!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Lord for the first time ever in my life fell from my mouth, and my hands flew to catch HIM! That in itself you must realize was a Miracle that I could catch because before, I could not see!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I was in the birth canal for over 10 minutes with a flattened cord.... born dead and recesitated had brain damage that baffled all doctors whoever met me. And my eyes cast to the side and I had eye muscle surgery at 3 months old.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I have never had any depth perception nor peripheral vision my entire life... </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:medium;">I since arriving in Florida, where priests were leaving out Mass parts...going from the Our Father and a sign of peace directly to distributing Communion... giving me not the opportunity and my need to fall upon my knees to say: "Lord I am not worthy, but only say the word and I shall be healed."</span><br /><br />Struggling interiorly because of this, intellectually knowing GOD protects the innocent lay folks from the sins of the priest, yet that is because, or I have always thought because no one but GOD really knows the condition of any soul.... so how could anyone such as myself make a judgement to not go to a particular priest's Mass.<br /><br />But in the case of leaving out Mass parts, and most of all congregations like the priest were also not reverent of The Lord's presence in the church's tabernacle and not even during the Consecration. Everyone was standing, not kneeling for the Consecration except for me and most were standing around with their hip stuck out and irritated watching their watches ...How much longer?<br /><br />Well Jesus in his speaking of being the Good Shepherd said "My sheep hear My Voice and no other voice will they follow!" So if priests do not even reverence the Consecration of Jesus in their own hands... who following them will?<br /><br />And thus it was because of this grieving GOD did a miracle for me!<br /><br />While I was grieving not knowing to go receive or not, for I knew and understood that he was leaving out Mass parts and both the priests in most all churches in Florida we had been to up to this point were doing so.<br /><br />I grieved over these young ones whose only examples are these... how can they learn to truly Love GOD?<br />Jesus appeared to me in dazzling white and said to me: "If you do not come receive me worthily, who will?"<br /><br />I cringed, because, I know I fall short of HIS Glory! All have sinned! I know that all accomplished by me, was not accomplished by me, but by HIM through me. I know how little I understand when I am not in union with HIM.<br /></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And when I received on my tongue today and My Lord fell as I struggled to catch him... </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I heard HIM say: " I did that" HE was on my wrist which has hurt for years from computer use, crochet... I realized when I heard HIS voice and when we hear HIS voice we are to harden not our heart regardless where we are!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I realized HE wanted to heal me, I let HIM rest on my wrist before lifting HIM from my breast as I lowered my head to consume HIM.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I rubbed my other wrist against where HE had layed on my other one...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Praying that not just the pain in my left wrist and arm... but the pain in both wrists and arms and cricking cracking coming into my knees I believed for too...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">For Fr Harold Cohen taught me long ago to always be Esther! His woman and GOD's who never takes no for an answer ...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Who never settles for less than GOD's best and that nothing is too big or to small to request!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">For we worship a GOD of more More More... and not a GOD of less or just enough!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Our GOD Almighty... My Sugar Daddy since I was born in 1960...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Actually yearns to give me and each child of HIS infinitely more than any of us can ask think dream or imagine!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I was not about to settle for just one wrist and arm healed and seriously improved vision which is still improving now as I type!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">HE did when I was on my knees in ST Joseph's, just after receiving HIM, spoke to me an instruction. " Go to my seashore and sing to me upon your knees at the seashore and cast into my ocean all your mountains and those of all whom you love!"</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And so I did! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy and me went up onto the beach in the same place we have been each day for weeks, we layed out my fleece robe upon which he sleeps.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I got upon my knees and began to sing new songs of thanksgiving, love and praise.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy-Jacob wanted me to be quiet I was attracting too much attention...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">But I was not about to buckle again under his pressure! See GOD has held me accountable before for obeying my husband under his pressure instead of the LORD!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I sang even with greater exuberance greater Faith and fervor! My Billy-Jacob left me on the beach due to his embarrassment!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I sang all sorts of things casting specific infirmities of mine, my husband's, and of many people we know... that HE could wash them away permanently as HIS tide rolled back out!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I danced and ran jumped as I sang stretching out my arms and legs...</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">There were many observers but I hardly knew they were there....</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">For both Fr Harold Cohen, Fr Joe Dionne and Mother Angelica taught me well in this department!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Mother Angelica always says: We are all called to be great Saints do not miss the opportunity! And if you want GOD to do the impossible you must be willing to do the Ridiculous!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:medium;">And if we are ashamed of HIM publicly, HE will not speak for us before HIS Heavenly Father!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I was determined I was not going to lose my healings and not be satisfied with just....</span><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am grabbing for HIS better and best ... I could never be accused of being a Martha Martha....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">That was my husband along the beach.... " Billy Billy your EstherStephanada has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her... you can choose have it too if you do not quiet her!"</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy did return and sat on a bench far from me and watched me dance shaking his head saying "I came here to rest!" </span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Eventually I danced over to My Personal Elder in Heaven's Gate....</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Come on Billy dance with me.... Lead me and I will follow!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">He brought me back to where he had left my robe and he laid down and went to sleep and asked me to do the same....</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I rested next to him but stayed awake watching! I laid my hands and wrists over the different parts of him that have pain from arthritis, varicose veins, his tennitis ears that do not hear so well... I spoke to all these infirmities you have no authority in his body, mine nor those we love!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Monday</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">December 28, 2009</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And my husband and I are both pain free now PRAISE BE TO GOD...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am still asking GOD with great expectation to heal Billy's varicose veins completely...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">They appear much better!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I began typing this as soon after we left the beach following your Mass... but when it got dark</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I could not complete, so here I am!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I have been blogging about GOD's Miracles since February 2009... Here are a few links I have over 30 and it would Bless me and the Lord if you not only go onto them and read them, but click the comment buttons on them and write to me on the blog pages and click where it will say either "Become a Follower" or "Be the First" or "Friend connect and invite those in your email contact list to do the same!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Because though I do what GOD instructs me to, and I am registering them with search engines...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">The ones that show up the most when anyone searches the topics I write about are those with many Followers and comments!</span><br /></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I praise GOD we were at your Mass yesterday and not another..</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">We look forward to hearing from you! GOD Bless you always!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">EstherStephanada &amp; Billy-Jacob</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">William &amp; Stephanie Gustavson</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://prayingdownthehighwaysandbyways.blospot.com/" target="_blank">http://PrayingDownTheHighwaysAndByways.blospot.com/</a></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://batteriesneverincluded.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://BatteriesNeverIncluded.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://youcanbeanesthertoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://YouCanBeAnEstherToo.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://youcanbeajacobtoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://YouCanBeAJacobToo.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://dothebluesgotyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://DoTheBluesGotYou.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div></div><div>Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:</div><div></div><div> <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.com</a></div><div></div><div>Technical details of permanent failure:</div><div>Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 Unable to relay for <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.com</a> (state 14).</div><div>To: <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.com</a></div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Stephie Gustavson</b> <span dir="ltr"></span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span> <br /><div>Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM</div><div>To: <a href="mailto:hoeffnerr@st-joe.org" target="_blank">hoeffnerr@st-joe.org</a>, <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org</a></div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Hello Fathers!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I was wonderful meeting both of you, Fr Cleary on Sunday... and you, Fr Hoeffner today</span><br /><div></div><div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div></div><div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Mail Delivery Subsystem</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mailer-daemon@googlemail.com" target="_blank">mailer-daemon@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span> <br /><div>Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:32 AM</div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div><br /></div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div>----------</div> <br /><div>Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM</div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:</div><div></div><div> <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org.com</a></div><div></div><div>Technical details of permanent failure:</div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div></div><div></div><br /><br />---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: Stephie<br /><br />Date: Sat, 02 Jan 2010 10:07:15 -0500<br />Subject: EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES..... I WAS ALMOST BLIND AND NOW I SEE!!<br /><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Hello,</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Not only can I see a much larger range than just the tiny cone of area as before.... </span> </div><div>I am now actually able to pick out my typos that cause email to come back to me. Those of you who have known me the longest, know I always needed an email sent to me first... </div><div></div><div>For me to click onto to ensure proper delivery! </div><div></div><div>What GOD has done for me and for us... HE will do for anyone for HE is not a respecter of persons but FAITH... and ALL it Takes is a Mustard grain seed of it and you like I can speak to your Mountains of sickness, pain, debt, headaches of any kind in your life or the lives of your loved ones and cast them into the deepest part of the sea and be gone forever Amen and Alleluia... FAITH &amp; not doubt is All you need!</div><div> Nothing is impossible! But Rather ALL Things ARE POSSIBLE with &amp; for GOD! PRAISE THE LORD! AMEN AMEN!</div><div></div><div>Since GOD is bringing my Billy-Jacob state to state with his teaching program, we are rarely going to be able to attend the same Catholic Church more than once or twice... We will not be changing our Church Parish Registration.</div><div></div><div>It makes no sense. Our Lord Jesus went town to town spreading HIS Gospel, but always returned to Jerusalem </div></blockquote><div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:large;" >Forwarded conversation</span><br /><div>Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">I RECEIVED GREAT EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE IN YOUR MASS TODAY! ST JOSEPH's CHURCH PALM BAY FLORIDA 9:45 MASS FEAST of The HOLY FAMILY</b></div><div>------------------------</div><div></div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Stephie Gustavson</b> <span dir="ltr"></span></span></div><br /></div><div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Sunday December 27, 2009</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Feast of The Holy Family</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Dear Fr. Dennis! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Or would you rather be called "Father Clearly" ?? For I can SEE MORE .... And MORE CLEARLY than ever in my life!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">The lives of anyone who both Knows and Loves GOD has Miracles chasing them down and all around where ever they go!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am sure your life is not an exception... I write you not to brag about myself.... But rather HIS Written Word says: "Let the redeemed of the Lord Say So! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And what GOD has done for me to even keep me alive to this day that I may even be alive still today, that I may have walked into ST James for your MASS, received Communion on my tongue as I have my entire life....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Today, I am almost a half a century I am.... 49!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Lord for the first time ever in my life fell from my mouth and my hands flew to catch HIM! That in itself you must realize was a Miracle that I could catch because before I could not see!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I was in the birth canal for over 10 minutes with a flattened cord.... born dead and resuscitated had brain damage that baffled all doctors whoever met me. And my eyes cast to the side and I had eye muscle surgery at 3 months old.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I have never had any depth perception nor peripheral vision my entire life... </span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And when I recieved on my tongue today and My Lord fell asI struggled to catch him... </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I heard HIM say: " I did that" HE was on my wrist which has hurt for years from computer use, crochet... I realized when I heard HIS voice and when we hear HIS voice we are to harden not our heart regardless where we are!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I realized HE wanted to heal me, I let HIM rest on my wrist before lifting HIM from my breast as I lowered my head to consume HIM.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I rubbed my other wrist against where HE had layed on my other one...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Praying that not just the pain in my left wrist and arm... but the pain in both wrists and arms and cricking cracking coming into my knees I believed for too...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">ForFr Harold Cohen taught me long ago to alwaysbe Esther! His woman and GOD's who never takes no for an answer ...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Who never settles for less than GOD's best and that nothing is too big or to small to request!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">For we worship a GOD of more More More... and not a GOD of less or just enough!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Our GOD Amighty... My Sugar Daddy since I was born in 1960...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Actually yearns to give me and each child of HIS infanitely more than any of us can ask think dream or imagine!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I was not about to settle for just one wrist and arm healed and seriously improved vision which is still improving now as I type!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">HE did when I was on my knees in ST Joseph's, just after receiving HIM, spoke to me an instruction. " Go to my seashore and sing to me upon your knees at the seashore and cast into my ocean all your mountains and those of all whom you love!"</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And so I did! </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy and me went up onto the beach in the same place we have been each day for weeks, we layed out my fleecerobe upon which he sleeps.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I got upon my knees and began to sing new songs of thanksgiving, love and praise.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy-Jacob wanted me to be quiet I wasattracting too much attention...</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">But I was not about to buckle again under his pressure! See GOD has held me accountable before for obeying my husband under his pressure instead of the LORD!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I sang even with greater exuberance greater Faith and fervor! My Billy-Jacob left me on the beach due to his embarrassment!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I sang all sorts of things casting specific imfirmaties of mine, my husband's, and many specificones of many people I know... that HE could wash them away permanently as HIS tide rolled back out!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I dancedI ran jumped as I sang stretching out my arms and legs...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">There were many observers but I hardly knew they were there....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">For both Fr Harold Cohen, Fr joe Dionne and Mother Angelica taught me well in this department!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Mother Angelica always says: We are all called to be great Saints do not miss the oppertunity! Andd if you want GOD to do the impossible you must be willing to do the RIdiculous!!!!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So I was determined I was not going to lose my healings and not be satisfied with just....</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am grabbing for HIS better and best ... I could never beaccused of being a Martha Martha....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">That was my husband along the beach.... " Billy Billy your EstherStephanada has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her... you can choose have it too if you do not quiet her!"</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">My Billy did return and sat on a bench far from me and watched me danceshaking his head saying "I came here to rest!" </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Eventually I danced over to My Personal Elder in Heaven's Gate....</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Come on Billy dance with me.... Lead me and I will follow!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">He brought me back to where he had left my robe and he laid down and went to sleep and asked me to do the same....</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I rested next to him but stayed awake watching! I laid my hands and wrists over the different parts of him that have pain from arthritis, varacose veins, histenitis ears that do not hearso well... I spoke to all these infirmities you have no authotity in his body, mine nor those we love!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Monday</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">December 28, 2009</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">And my husband and I are both pain free now PRAISE BE TO GOD...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I am still asking GOD with great expectation to heal Billy's varicose viens completely...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">They appear much better!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I began typing this as soon after we left the beach following your Mass... but when it got dark</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I could not complete, so here I am!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I have been blogging about GOD's Miracles since February 2009... Here are a few links I have over 30 andit would Bless me and the Lord if you not only go onto them andread them, but click the comment buttons on them and write to me on the blogpagesandclick where it will say either "Become a Follower" or "Be the First" or "Friend connect and invite those in your email contact list to do the same!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Because though I do what GOD instructs me to, and I am registering them with search engines...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">The ones that show up the most when anyone searches the topics I write about are those with many Followers and comments!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I praise GOD we were at your Mass yesterday and not another... for now we consider you family Father!!!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">We look foward to hearing from you! GOD Bless you always!</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">EstherStephanada &amp; Billy-Jacob</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">William &amp; Stephanie Gustavson</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://prayingdownthehighwaysandbyways.blospot.com/" target="_blank">http://PrayingDownTheHighwaysAndByways.blospot.com/</a></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://batteriesneverincluded.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://batteriesneverincluded.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://youcanbeanesthertoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://youcanbeanesthertoo.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://youcanbeajacobtoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://YouCanBeAJacobToo.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://dothebluesgotyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://DoTheBluesGotYou.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Mail Delivery Subsystem</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mailer-daemon@googlemail.com" target="_blank">mailer-daemon@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span> <br /><div>Date: Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM</div><div></div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification</div><div></div><div>THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.</div><div></div><div>YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.</div><div></div><div>Delivery to the following recipient has been delayed:</div><div></div><div> <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org.com</a></div><div></div><div>Message will be retried for 2 more day(s)</div><div></div><div>Technical details of temporary failure:</div><div>The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720" target="_blank">http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720</a></div><div>[<a href="http://maryknoll.org.com/" target="_blank">maryknoll.org.com</a> (1): Connection timed out]</div><div></div><div>----- Original message -----</div><div></div><div>MIME-Version: 1.0ubject: I RECEIVED GREAT EUCHARISTIC MIRACLE IN YOUR MASS TODAY! ST JOSEPH'S Church PALM BAY FLORIDA 9:45 MASS FEAST of The HOLY FAMILY</div><div>From: Stephie Gustavson</div><div>To: <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org.com</a></div><div>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=00148539421830558e047bcc187b</div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Stephie Gustavson</b> </span></div> ----------<br /><div>Date: Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at PM</div><div>To: <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org</a></div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div></div><div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div></div><div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Stephie Gustavson</b></span></div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span> <br /><div>Date: Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:24 AM</div><div>To: <a href="mailto:hoeffnerr@st-joe.org" target="_blank">hoeffnerr@st-joe.org</a>, <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org</a></div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">Hello Fathers!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I was wonderful meeting both of you, Fr Cleary on Sunday... and you, Fr Hoeffner today</span> </div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=00148539421830558e047bcc187b</div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div>----------</div><div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b>Mail Delivery Subsystem</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mailer-daemon@googlemail.com" target="_blank">mailer-daemon@googlemail.com</a>&gt;</span></span></div><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"></span> <br /><div>Date: Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM</div><div></div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:</div><div></div><div> <a href="mailto:dcleary@maryknoll.org.com" target="_blank">dcleary@maryknoll.org.com</a></div><div></div><div>Technical details of permanent failure:</div><div></div><div><div></div></div><div></div><div></div><br /><br />----------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b class="undefined">Les Schmidt</b><br />Date: Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:07 PM<br />To: Stephie Gustavson </span></span><br /><div><div style="font-family: &quot;times new roman&quot;,&quot;new york&quot;,times,serif; font-size: 14pt;"><div></div><div>Stephanie and Bill,</div><div>Thanks for sharing the good news on your Eucharistic miracle. </div><div><br /></div><div>Have received both your phone calls and your emails. </div><div><br /></div><div>Will be back in Charlotte on Sunday evening and will give you a call. LS</div>Les Schmidt<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div style=";font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:14pt;"><br /><div style=";font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt;"><span style=";font-family:Tahoma;font-size:x-small;" ></span><br /><hr style="font-size:78%;"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Sat, January 2, 2010 10:07:15 AM<br /><div><div></div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://prayingdownthehighwaysandbyways.blospot.com/" target="_blank">http://Prayingdownthehighwaysandbyways.blospot.com/</a></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://freesonshineysmilestoyou.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://batteriesneverincluded.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://batteriesneverincluded.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://youcanbeanesthertoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://youcanbeanesthertoo.blogspot.com/</a> <a href="http://youcanbeajacobtoo.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://youcanbeajacobtoo.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://dothebluesgotyou.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://dothebluesgotyou.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div><div><div></div></div></div></div><div></div></div><br /></div><br />----------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">From: <b class="undefined">Teresa Kemp</b> Date: Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:00 PM<br />To: Stephie Gustavson </span></span><br />Hi Stephanie,<br />that's a Great picture -- and also great news about your healing. you have wonderful faith.<br /><br />I had a friend that gave me a good teaching on "be submissive to your husband". It was a lesson about "trusting God" and really submitting to God in the ordinary things. There is no conflict when following the word of God<br />- if, for example, I, the wife would rather do some praise and worship but my husband wants me to be quiet and to sit down and watch the news with him, I can submit to the husband as an 'act of submitting to God' and I can 'let God be in the ordinary moment' of watching tv. I've learned that 'a good way' is not better than "God's way". God has done more when I have done less- it's a "let go and let God" kind of thing...<br /><br />I just want to encourage you to not think that you have to "choose God " over your husband. God has taken care of that. If you refrain from singing and dancing aloud because your husband asks you to, it is both honoring God and your husband to make the sacrifice. Besides, your spirit can sing and dance and pray even when your outer self is quiet. I believe that God does use our husbands to do "His will". For example, maybe God knew of someone on the beach who really needed to hear His voice-----maybe the "quiet" would have suited His purpose better. The sound of the waves makes me think of God.<br />Well, I better get off--getting late-<br />, I hope you guys are staying warm! I know it is cold even in Florida now. It's been in the twenties and the wind has been blowing----<br /><br />I'm keeping guys in prayer-<br />take care<br />love ya,<br />Teresa<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br />---------------------------------------------------------------------<span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br /></span></span><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"><br /></span></span> EUCHARISTIC MIRACLES..... I WAS ALMOST BLIND AND NOW I SEE!!</blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div></div><br />----------</div><br />Hi Teresa,<br /><br />I aggree with you Teresa; I wish it was refraining that sort of stuff was the issue.<br /><br />Stephie </div><br /><br /></div>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-63651515901193931122009-12-26T08:27:00.008-05:002010-12-02T19:18:41.549-05:00<div><span style="font-size:x-large;">Who would ever think that in this country the USA...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-large;">That most states do not even license opticians...</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-large;">They are the ones to whom you take... your prescription for eye glasses or contact lenses!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-large;">I am I am sure you want some joker who learned on the job, from another who also did not go to school or was... never appropriately tested whether they work for JC Penneys, Sears, Vision Plaza, </span></div><div><span style="font-size:x-large;">Pearle Vision or Lens Crafters!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-size:x-large;">We need no Monkey See Monkey Dos or Do nots when it comes to those who treat ones health!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;"><a href="http://hillsthrillsmonkeysandmolehills.blogspot.com/">http://HillsThrillsMonkeysandMoleHills.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div><br /></div><br />Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:24 AM<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);"> Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 </span></span><br /><div style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt;"><div>Thanks, Stephanie. It was a beautiful message.</div><div><br /></div><div>God bless you.</div><div><br /></div></div><div>God Bless You Sr Rose!</div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">I just received my first pair of glasses that were my appropriate prescription and do not hurt my head. They are bifocals and it is going to take me quite some time to learn how to look through them because they just no longer offer as large of a lens as they once did for women.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">So the bifocal part for reading is rather small. But it is amazing Blessing!</span></div><div><span style="font-size:medium;">It do nothing to give me peripheral vision or depth vision.</span></div><div></div>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-85635678957832928782009-10-30T19:50:00.002-04:002010-12-02T19:17:39.054-05:00<div><span style="font-size:6;">Impaired Driving regardless to the cause!!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Below you can see the statistics of how many people die because of drunk driving!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">But how many more should not be on the road due to other types of impairment!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Some that have absolutely no legal penalty!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Most States do not License Opticians who measure a patient and makes their glasses and contacts to the doctors orders!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Since in some states they do net even have to go to school, but apply for a job, with on the job training! No testing! No Continuing Education!! </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Do your Eyes have it???</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;">Or are you like me, not seeing what you should!!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:6;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:6;"></span> </div> <div><br /><br /></div> <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br />From: <b class="gmail_sendername">MADD Online</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:enews@madd.org">enews@madd.org</a>&gt;</span><br />Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM<br />Subject: Thank You For Your Pledge<br /><br /><br /><br /><div> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody> <tr> <td bgcolor="#ac9d73"> <table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="618"> <tbody> <tr> <td background="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/w.gif" valign="top" width="18"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/w.gif" width="18" height="200" /></td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width="5"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="5" height="5" /></td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width="572"><a href="http://www.madd.org/campaign" target="_blank"><img title="MADD: Campaign to ELIMINATE Drunk Driving" alt="MADD: Campaign to ELIMINATE Drunk Driving" src="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/banner.jpg" border="0" width="572" height="200" /></a><br /> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="572"> <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="7" height="7" /></td></tr> <tr> <td width="26"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="26" height="5" /></td> <td width="520"> <p>Dear Mrs Stephanie,<br /><br />We are deeply grateful for your support of our efforts. Your pledge makes a difference -- Every year, nearly 13,000 people are killed by drunk drivers with an illegal alcohol level of .08 BAC or above. This represents more than 1,000 families every month that must live with the tragic consequences of drunk driving. Although alcohol-related fatalities have declined by more than 40 percent since MADD was founded in 1980, progress has stalled in recent years.<br /><br />That is why MADD is launching a major new offensive in the war against drunk driving through its Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving. By intensifying efforts, creating alliances and developing innovative solutions, together we can take the fight against drunk driving to a new and unprecedented level.<br /><br />Through MADD's Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving, the possibility of eradicating a primary public health threat that has plagued the United States for a hundred years is now within reach. Join us.<br /><br /><a href="http://support.madd.org/site/Donation?ACTION=SHOW_DONATION_OPTIONS&amp;CAMPAIGN_ID=3182" target="_blank">Please consider making a charitable donation</a> in support of MADD's lifesaving work.<br /><br />Once again, thank you for your support.<br /><br />Sincerely,<br /><br />Laura Dean-Mooney<br />MADD National President</p><img src="http://support.madd.org/site/PixelServer" width="1" height="1" /><br /><br /><br /><span>This message does not accomodate email replies.</span> </td> <td width="26"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="26" height="5" /></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="3"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="5" height="26" /></td></tr></tbody></table></td> <td bgcolor="#ffffff" valign="top" width="5"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/sp.gif" width="5" height="5" /></td> <td background="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/bg-e.gif" valign="bottom" width="18"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/e.gif" width="18" height="200" /></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"><img src="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/s.gif" width="618" height="20" /></td></tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td colspan="4"> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="600"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="143"><a href="http://mail.google.com/mail/www.madd.org" target="_blank"><img title="MADD: Mother's Against Drunk Drivers" alt="MADD: Mother's Against Drunk Drivers" src="http://support.madd.org/images/wp5/es-autoresponders/logo-madd.gif" border="0" width="143" height="26" /></a></td> <td valign="top" width="457">© 2009 Mothers Against Drunk Driving.<br />511 E. John Carpenter Frwy. Suite 700 Irving, TX 75062<br /><a href="http://support.madd.org/site/CO?s_Affiliate=wp5_" target="_blank"><br /></a></td> </tr></tbody></table></td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="5"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-61410450015765750272009-10-30T18:41:00.003-04:002010-12-02T19:16:02.649-05:00<div><span style="font-size:130%;">As you can see the ABO-NCLE says that states who license now are looking to stop because of costs and lobbyists of stores who make glasses and contact lenses.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">If they could hire Opticians that do not have to be educated, keep taking continuing education each year, nor pay for licensing exams, they can pay them less and charge us the patient consumers more and make deeper profits at the cost of each persons health who enters their store and the safety of every citizen in this country who must either drive or be a passenger in a vehicle on our countries roads!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Anyone driving without properly made glasses is driving Impaired no differently than a person drinking or doing drugs. Impairment is impairment regardless what the cause!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">As of now driving with glasses made in a unlicensed state is not a crime and is totally acceptable, but should not be!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Mrs Stephanie Gustavson</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><br /><br /></div> <div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:large;" >Forwarded conversation</span><br />Subject: <b class="gmail_sendername">I have had botch jobs by opticians throughout my 49 years of life</b><br />------------------------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">Hello,</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">I only found out last week from a delightful John Rizzo Optician at Lens Crafters of Concord NC that not all states in this country license Opticians and this is scary!!</span></div><br />----------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: <b class="undefined">Mail</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:customerservice@abo-ncle.org">customerservice@abo-ncle.org</a>&gt;</span><br />Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:57 AM<br />To: Stephie Gustavson<br /></span><br /></span><br /><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"> <div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:11pt;" >Yes, it is. For many years, the Opticians Association of America has tried to get states to license. Now, with the cost of testing, more states are considering dropping licensure!!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);font-size:11pt;" > </span></p> <div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;"> Stephie Gustavson<br /><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:31 PM<br /><br /><b>Subject:</b> I have had botch jobs by opticians through out my 49 years of life...</span></p></div></div></div><br />----------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: <b class="undefined">Stephie Gustavson</b><br />Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:28 AM<br />To: Mail &lt;<a href="mailto:customerservice@abo-ncle.org">customerservice@abo-ncle.org</a>&gt;<br /></span><br /></span><br /><div>SCARY!!!! HOW MANY BLIND PEOPLE DRIVING ON OUR COUNTRIES ROADS????</div> <div>I Plan to send/share my story at Federal level... Food Drug Administration &amp; write the White House too!!</div> <div>I am stunned to the point of vomiting to see how filthy my house has been and I did not know!!!</div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Its a miracle me &amp; my family have not died of some sort of strange disease... because I could not see the grime!!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">OOOOOG!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">And I cannot begin to say How many Trillions of Miracles it took fo GOD to keep me alive this long, because I could never see!!!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">And though I often thanked HIM, More Often I did not... because I never knew the traps of death I was saved from.... All because I could not see anything!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Blessings !</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">EstherStephanada</span><br /><br /></div> <div> <div></div></div><br />----------<br /><span class="undefined"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">From: <b class="undefined">Stephie Gustavson</b><br />Date: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 5:27 PM<br />To: Mail &lt;<a href="mailto:customerservice@abo-ncle.org">customerservice@abo-ncle.org</a><br /></span><br /></span><br /><div><span style="font-size:130%;">What has your group already done or are doing to have all states license?</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">I am very serious about furthering this cause and I do not want to reinvent the wheel....</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">I have a history of successfully petitioning local stores to carry salt free breads etc when I was in Louisiana and I know that every citizen in this country has the right to start a petition and send that petition through Congress...</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">I know a great deal about lobbying being I was born in the Sodom &amp; Gomorah of the new world where it was fashionable among many to be crooked with financial backers.</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">I am going to write online tonight "Mothers Against Drunk Drivers!" They will have a canary probably do not know this problem exists!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span> </div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">GOD BLESS YOU!</span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;">Mrs. Stephanie Gustavson <a href="http://theeyeseyeshaveit.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://TheEyesEyesHaveIt.blogspot.com/</a> </span></div> <div><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><br /><br /></div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div> <div></div></div></div><br /><br /></div>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-55313525961512705302009-10-23T22:26:00.003-04:002009-10-25T23:26:05.334-04:00No One could ever imagine the dirt &amp; grime that magically appeared before mine eyes... like MAGIC once home for the very first time with appropriate Glasses!!!<br /> <br /> And All because I am now in a state that requires Opticians to maintain a license!!! Be properly educated no different than nurses or doctors!!!<br /> <br /> And to my horror, this morning I received a note from the national organization of Opticians telling me that some states that license now is required, plan on dropping licensing because it costs too much for testing!!!<br /> <br /> The wonderful John Rizzo of LensCrafters ib Concord NC explained to me today the hows and wherefores that are politically driven by money &amp; I scratch your back so you better scratch mine!!!<br /> <br /> The Usual... Lobbyists!!! Pressing the right... or should I say wrong buttons...<br /> Depending on which perspective you are coming from!<br /> <br /> Optical stores want to be able to hire cheaper labor, which means they want to hire uneducated persons who do not pay annual fees for their license.<br /> <br /> So folks lets band together &amp; mobilize... We must FIGHT THIS for our own safety &amp; the safety of our children &amp; our children's children!!<br /> <br /> Realize that people in all states that do not license have OOOODLES of people who are licensed to drive on our country's roads &amp; highways... who even if they take care of themselves keeping up with annual eye exams.... but if they through no fault of their own are working and driving with the wrong lenses...<br /> <br /> They are driving impaired but legally acceptable by the laws of this great land!!!<br /> <br /> But it is costing the lives of an uncountable number of folks who die daily on on highways &amp; byways &amp; country roads like the ones YOU &amp; I LIVE ON!!<br /> <br /> EstherStephanada here saying you can make a difference... write and call your Congressmen &amp; Congresswomen... Your Governor &amp; The White House! Tell ALL the Dangers and Demand That Opticians be licensed everywhere in this country... That all accidents that can be prevented will be!!!<br /> GOD BLESS YOU... and GOD BLESS AMERICA!!Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-58608180396855370512009-10-22T21:47:00.004-04:002009-10-31T11:47:21.709-04:00<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25483uBlHc-9Y0E2F-Tj0L6d-Y1reN_zWZrFMk1FSRAvPYKXnd47I0FkPSlvEA-to4OBUrm-cJP2kURmf9SWT8xT41ekdRUDlaEKCp5TXLFRfdTRFCKgxoPGE7IP-L3jVpaz023arTg8/s1600-h/THERE+I+AM+WITH+MY+FIRST+EVER+WONDERFUL+SET+OF+EYES!+and+JOHN+RIZZO+the+OPTICIAN+WHO+MADE+IT+HAPPEN!.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh25483uBlHc-9Y0E2F-Tj0L6d-Y1reN_zWZrFMk1FSRAvPYKXnd47I0FkPSlvEA-to4OBUrm-cJP2kURmf9SWT8xT41ekdRUDlaEKCp5TXLFRfdTRFCKgxoPGE7IP-L3jVpaz023arTg8/s320/THERE+I+AM+WITH+MY+FIRST+EVER+WONDERFUL+SET+OF+EYES!+and+JOHN+RIZZO+the+OPTICIAN+WHO+MADE+IT+HAPPEN!.JPG" vr="true" /></a><br /> </div><span style="font-size: large;">I definately want to tell my story!</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="font-size: large;">It is really amazing that I am even alive to tell it!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">For starters I had my first adequate eye exam of my life! </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Even though I had an excellent eye doctor for many of my teenage into adult life, he nor anyone else at anytime of my life told me in a way that I understood how to answer their questions that the use to determine a patients range of peripheral vision!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Remember as a child the eye care proffessional would say: "Watch the froggie on the stick...&nbsp; now keep your eyes on my nose and tell me when you see the froggie!"</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Well, a person born completely deaf lets say... usually has much sharper vision than the average.&nbsp; Just as some blind folks hear such the faintest sounds I as a child thought my Grand Mothers had eyes on the back of their heads since their eyes on their faces did not work!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Well, I was born dead, recessitated, my eyes cast to side and could not&nbsp;focus on&nbsp;anything in front me, but saw only what was on the far opposite sides of me.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I had muscle surgery at age 3 months to correct this problem, but the world famous surgeon who operated on me....&nbsp;Dr Robert Azar Sr&nbsp;must have never explained to my parents I would never have depth perception.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">And after my recent exam by Dr Hasson, and June &nbsp;of Cabarrus Eye Center in Concord NC, I learned that I also can only see what is directly in front of me eyes!!!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">YiYi Yi Yi!!!&nbsp; YIKES...&nbsp; No wonder I have had soSSOOOOO many close calls...&nbsp; GOD has literally snatched me from absolute certain death...&nbsp; must be a trillion more times a day every day of my life since I first crawled!!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">How overwhelmingly heart warming!!&nbsp; And I not knowing...&nbsp; not having a clue Never thanked GOD trillions of times which HE deserved enormous thanks and praise!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">For I speed skated on Rollers... ans ICE....&nbsp; YIKES!!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Biked up and down ramps...&nbsp; sometimes with my baby on my back&gt;&gt;&gt;&nbsp; Can you Imagine???</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I can't&gt;&gt;&gt;&nbsp; How increadible is that???&nbsp; </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Only in GOD can any soul find rest...&nbsp; or in my case PROTECTION... as well also!!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">On Friday, after returning to JC penneys Optical of the Concord Mall in&nbsp; weConcord NC on HWY 29 near 601a really botched job pair of glasses&nbsp;measured by&nbsp;Vicki L Eudy</span> <span style="font-size: large;">after having them for a week after she had told me "You have to get used to them!"</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">We, my husband and I went to LensCrafters within the same mall!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">John Rizzo measured me correctly for the first time ever in my life!</span> <span style="font-size: large;">Imagine needing glasses since childood and never having received an appropriate pair of glasses, not because your parents did not take you to fine doctors...</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">My parents I am sure paid out much on my eyes... little did not only they know that I could not see anything...&nbsp; not even a tiny fraction of what I can see now...</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Even though Only GOD can correct my depth perception and lack of peripheral vision.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I am positive my parents never knew just how blind I was!!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Because through out life they got angry, popped me "Why don't you watch where you are going???"</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">When I came home with my wonderful LensCrafters glasses, I Actually came home Horrified that My HOUSE IS FILTHY!!!!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I could not see most dirt &amp; grime!!&nbsp; I am very overwhelmed by how I have not been cleaning my house, though I have been going through the motions of doing so.... sweeping... scrubbing each part of the house!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I felt so sick seeing the crud we have been living in I could Vomit!!&nbsp; No wonder my husband has been so frustrated!!&nbsp; Having nothing but horror stories of Lens Crafter's in </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">New Orleans LA area, and combine that we thought the gentleman in LensCrafers Concord a bit wild and unmarried... no Wedding Band...</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I was a bit afraid to have his face &amp; hands that close to mine!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">That is why I had gone to JC Penny's to begin with...&nbsp; I was a bit nervous getting into the face of an unmarried man!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">But much to my delightful surprise... John, the LensCrafters guy though like me very energetic and a bit too eager &amp; enthusiatic to help me, or so I thought....</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">He is very much a gentleman...very educated,&nbsp;highly respectable and honorable man!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Turned out he like my husband is an American&nbsp;Vietnam Veteran, having been in the same part of Vietnam as my husband.&nbsp; He &amp; his wife are both Catholic like us and share the same convictions about many issues concerning todays society.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">His Wedding Band was cracked and he &amp; his wife getting new bands and renewing their vows soon after 37 years of mariage!!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">So this once again proves the scripture...&nbsp; WE CANNOT JUDGE FROM OUTWARD APPEARANCES...</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">We are not to judge others at all... For only GOD can see the heart!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">And though we are told to be weary of those who wash their heads and wear fine robes.... whose insides make GOD VOMIT....</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Often if we by pass one who "Seems" to be a bit this or that...</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">We could be passing by&nbsp;a&nbsp;pearl the Lord Himself placed in our path to Bless us!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">I recomend to anyone in Concord/Charlotte NC area to get their glasses from John Rizzo at LensCrafters....</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">He does the finest work... he educated us as well...</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">How many folks are aware that&nbsp;not all&nbsp;states license Opticians!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Obviouly Louisiana where I was born does not!!&nbsp; Not much of a surprise though to me!!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">So much in Louisiana has been substandard compared to other parts of the country!</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: large;">This is just a tip of still another iceberg... another hole in the fabric of both colorful politics to match the Swiss Cheezy way every thing has been done in all facets of life in the BIGGEST HOLE in the ground beneath the sea!</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a name='more'></a><br /> <br /> </div>&nbsp; <br /> <br /> </div>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4385885825911447461.post-15996411428892093782009-10-18T08:58:00.001-04:002009-10-31T11:49:17.865-04:00<span style="font-size: large;">I Yi Yi Yi &gt;&gt;&gt;&nbsp; My Eyes have Always Hurt...&nbsp; 49 yrs old and have received my first pair of appropriate glasses in my life!!</span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Not because my parents never tried!&nbsp; Nor because I had poor Optometrists!&nbsp; On the contrary I had most of my life an outstanding team of Doctors, but I learned Friday evening...&nbsp; October 16, 2009...&nbsp; </span><br /> <span style="font-size: large;">Only 18 states require licensing for Opticians...&nbsp; and Louisiana where I was born no choice of my own...&nbsp; where I have lived up till February 2007, is one of the 42 that do not have a licensing board governing those who measure patients and make prescription glasses for the public!!</span>Esther Stephanada!http://www.blogger.com/profile/15006577434123092785noreply@blogger.com0