Anyone who has known my husband William and I for any length of time know that for my first 49 years of iife that I had physical tunnel vision for real!! Yes REALLY!
That I only saw a small portion of any one's faces at a time, and that I was raised as a sighted child because my parents would not acknowledge my challenges for they were ashamed of "who or what I was."
And that on the Feast of the Holy Family 2009 I received a Eucharistic MIRACLE in my eyes and have enjoyed given thanks & praise for nearly three and a half years of landscapes and full length drapes!
So I have done some amazing things for someone who literally at times could not see what was under her ow nose!
I graduated from Grace King High School without ever having read much with understanding.
To satisfy my mother I sat on my bed for hours just every once in a while turning a page....
But since what was printed in those books made no sense to me and I could not see...
That time was not wasted... for in my heart I was not in a chair at a desk nor was I lounged on my bed reading...
I was conversing with my Lord my God and your God...
I would ask HIM to fill my heart and mind with whatever I needed to know...to stay safe at home, school or on the school bus...
Walking down hills or through my neighborhood.
A friend who I had not been in touch with for quite some time sent me an invite to open a " LinkedIN " account.
Happy to hear from her I did just that thinking I could take my time that there would be no hurry to build a resume for myself and at a future date possibly this could help me grow a licensed business with income doing what I enjoy the most...free-motion embroidery, crochet and writing.
But what happened was as I opened this "Linked IN " account, I was interrupted.
And as always, I embraced my interruption... as you do too...
Took care of whatever it was my husband need that time....
I do my share of asking him questions that too for him are not at the best timing...
It happens in all marriages in all kinds of friendships...
There is no fault placing here... No anger or frustration but rather jovial laughter and entertainment...
Life is much easier when one can laugh at and with themselves...
But what happened since I did not stay with the program as I first began opening this Linked IN account was it automatically sent invitations to everyone who I ever wrote an email to from the first date I opened this email address. And not only to these who I possibly only wrote once ever, some were business inquires that I never thought about again in over 5 years.
Other auto invitations went to folks who I never wrote but their email address was attached to one of those cutesy poems with pictures many just keep forwarding and forwarding over and over...certainly none of these I ever thought would one day show up as "CONNECTIONS"
And since I at times post to my blogs not signed into blogger but from my email as I am doing now...
Linked IN posted connection requests to my blogs for about a 5th time last night.
So instead of going into Blogger and removing those comical posts "MrsStephanie............invites you to CONNECT" from my blogs...
I am leaving Linked IN right there...
Instead I will post this on all of them...
And make a game of it...
But it could have serious consequence when an unsent invite is accepted by someone who is worse than unpleasant.
I HAVE CUT OF several CONNECTIONS....some without any explanation.
Check your email contact list for many email systems save all information as your potential contacts even though you do not routinely write email to them nor they to you.
And you can possibly also have your account hacked into through these odd seemingly insignificant addresses that seem not worth even giving time to DELETE!
But do it! DELETE DELETE!
And when you open new accounts do not let systems access your contact lists, manually type the ones you want to communicate with the new account and you will have fewer headaches of SPAM JAMS...
And you will not have to check your new account more often than you would have liked to to make certain you have no spying new connections...that maybe unsafe for you...
As happened to me!
But the Lord will always keep us free indeed with out needs HE cannot nor will not meet...
And when the devil does raise his head....
Whether a cyber spyer...a marriage divider...or simply folks who some how did not learn or remember from Kindergarten how to introduce themselves and ask others their names....
I guess till Jesus comes back there will be those who try to force themselves upon others instead..
When anyone is rude, crude, or speaks with forked tongue...
Remember our Lord said to cut off the hand that causes us to sin...
Don't you wish that it was as easy to get rid of all of these....as pushing or clicking a DELETE BUTTON!
Mr & Mrs William Gustavson
PO BOX 1144
Ponchatoula, LA 70454
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