Welcome to OUAE

Welcome to Once Upon an Eden (a survivor activist founded and directed organization)

Once Upon an Eden is an international global entity of networking individuals, families, communities, not-for-profit organizations, NGOs, education centers, schools, orphanages and micro businesses from around the world that promote and protect the rights of children, fathers, mothers and families within their own communities. This same network seeks to meet the needs of children, families and communities affected by organized crime, child abuses, exploitation, and crimes against humanity within their own local areas.

Important disclaimer: Please remember you are accountable to the information of which you have been exposed. What you do with the information is up to you. Hopefully, you will analyze it, possibly research it, and incorporate into your being and life what makes sense for you and your family. *If the information does not apply to you or your situation or someone that you may know, please, do not dwell on it. If the information does apply to you or your situation or that of someone you may know. Please use the information with wisdom and discretion methodically and systematically.

From here on in we will be "spelunking" into the very caves of our souls, it is not a journey for the faint of heart.

No topic is off limits. Topics are discussed in "the real" and "the raw".
Scripture use is heavy hear when applicable for a reason. The scriptures are allowed to "speak" for themselves here. We try to leave religion and dogma to the institutions of mass mind control and manipulation.
Being offended is a given. When you are offended ask yourself "Why?" then take a more objective approach to the information and the wording conveying the message, as well as, to the message itself.
You, most likely, will be triggered. If triggered, welcome the trigger and purge; just roll with it. It will end faster. You will have healed more than you were before. Articles take as long as it takes for you to read them. If you do not want to go "spelunking through your heart, mind, soul, psyche, then by all means, go visit a page dedicated to "Human Trafficking" and the UN paradigm. This is the only sensibility of offense and trigger warning for the whole of the website. We guarantee you will be offended and triggered. We at Once Upon an Eden are and we manage the page. Love and prayers to you. Thank you for being here. Enjoy your journey.

Special Message From Michelle Carmela (Founder/Director of OUAE) To Our Visitors

However you landed here or whatever led you here, Welcome to the Once Upon an Eden website! I am Michelle Carmela founder and director of the organization and prime website manager for the OUAE website. It is my great pleasure to have you here, as I firmly believe each and every human being is a gift and treasure meant to be valued and enjoyed while we each are here on Earth.

It is true that in the industries of abuses and of slavery (which the UN has renamed "Human Trafficking") people are treated as if people are a commodity. Once the value of purpose is seen to be "gone" by the purchaser and the enjoyment that is had by the purchaser has been "used up" the "commodity" is "disposed of" in one way or another.

Every day living alone in of itself can be so challenging and even dark and depressing as it is. When we add the pressures that can be presented in abusive relationships and dangerous connections within the underworld of organized crime, it can be difficult to recognize the gifts and treasures we each are in a non commodity fashion.

So please allow me to explain what I mean by the fact that you are a gift and a treasure meant to be valued and enjoyed while here on Earth.

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our apple pies, we are made of star stuff." ~ Carl Sagan

If you at all are questioning if you have a right to be here...Let me ask you this: "Did you ask to be born?" The simple answer is "NO!" NO YOU DID NOT! Forget the Akashic Records and the belief taught in the "Secret" that we form spiritual agreements and have a spiritual contract before we are even born. The fact of the matter is your parents met in what ever shape or form of circumstance or situation whether it be a date, a rape, a one night stand or a test tube. Either thee deed was done or a deed was done, whatever type of deed..it was the deed that brought you to being about nine months later through a series of biochemistry changes which knitted you together from the microscopic cells of a male human sperm and a female human egg to the amazing person you are today. You are here. Want it or not. What you do with your existence is between you and you. However, make no mistake your decisions will affect those around you and generations to come for either the good or the bad. (Duet 30 the whole chapter *vs19). You were created, born, are here. So yes! YES! YES! YOU HAVE EVERY AND ALL RIGHT TO BE HERE. ALIVE! WELL! THRIVING TO THE UPMOST MAXIUM AS YOU ARE ABLE!

"The purpose of your time on Earth is to be your own best friend." ~ Matthew McConnaughey

"I know the thoughts that I have towards you," says the Lord, "thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you and unexpected end." Jer. 29:11 KJV

" For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jer. 29:11 NIV

"Beloved, I wish above all things that you maybe in health and prosper, even as your soul prospers." (3John 1:2)

So let's back up a little bit by however many years or decades it takes for you to do a "This Is Your Life" type of analysis. What life events happened to you as a child that had a positive and negative impact on you that you would say helped shape you into the person you are at this moment? Think back to the incidents where you felt like you were treated with little to know value or were used and abused. Everyone can relate to a time that they felt slighted, invisible, cheated, bullied, or a commodity, or any way shape or form other than like a fellow human. How much influence and control if any did you have in those events? Most likely as children things happen to each of us that we just cannot control because we don't have the physical ability or maybe the cogitative ability yet, though we have a strong sense that what is happening at the time is indeed very wrong. That kind of treatment goes beyond being sent to your room for not doing a chore or for breaking a most basic of household rules. Even still when sent to one's room as a child we tend to want to think "When I am an adult, life will be different and I can do what I want. There won't be so many rules." Then as an adult we tend to look back and think, "Life was so much simpler then all I had to do was ..." We tend to look back as adults because of pressures and mistreatment to want to say that the days of our youth were so much better.

Do not say, 'Why were the old days better than these?' For it is unwise for you to ask about this. (Ecclesiastes 7:10)

The fact of the matter is the same as now. There are rules to life. There will always be rules. Rules, laws, regulations, basics of science, Humanity's well being and basic existence. The key reason most rules exist is for your own survival. The most basic fundamental law/rule/regulation:

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
(Leviticus 19:18, Luke 10:27, Matthew 22:37, Mark 12:30)

Now think back again to those defining events. Even if you were young and not able to do much if anything during a negative or horrible event you chose Life. At the moment of the event you were a victim you may have seemed weak and helpless when in fact, you were stronger then than you realized and the same goes for now. Events both positive and negative happen to each of us ( Matthew 5:45). When it is of negative impact the experiencer is called a victim. Once the event is over the person is a victim survivor. In dealing with the aftermath, the person is a survivor. In helping themselves and others to overcome the fall out results of the previous trauma(s) that person is a survivor activist. In successfully cutting the ties and legacy attached to the environment, event and fall out, the person is a thriver. Remember, if you are a threat that is when you will be challenged. You are not challenged because you are weak. You are challenged because you are strong and the one doing the challenging wants your strength. That is why you are abused, mistreated, bullied, tortured. The energy vampire, the tormentor is doing all they can to steal the strength within you for their own survival. As long as you keep choosing Life and living in Love, you are and will remain stronger than they. (That does not mean being a welcome mat to torture, pain and abuse. It means you are strong. Realize about yourself what your enemies already know.)

Various levels of disrespect, mistreatment, abuses, tortures, cults, gangs, organized crime, governments result from the rules being twisted and used as weapons or just plain ignored. Even the "Golden Rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" which is a paraphrase of "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind; love your neighbor as yourself" can and does get twisted and weaponized as does the fundamental scriptures which the Golden Rule is based upon. The fall out is often generations of a great deal of heart/soul pain and mental illness.

Tina Turner asked: "What does love have to do with it? Love is a second hand emotion." This dear visitor is a harsh misconception. Love is far from a second hand emotion. And Love has everything to do with IT and the very essence of Life. God is Love (1 John 4:8) Love has attributes, characteristics. We are Love/Gods and Goddesses here on Earth. We are born of Love/Creator/God. We are Love. We are here on Earth to be Love, To be Loved and to Love. Living Love is living your dominion. Do you understand? There is nothing second hand about Loving the Lord your God/Love. Loving your neighbor. Loving yourself. There is nothing door welcome mat about it either. Again Creator God is Love. You are called by his name. You are Love. (Isaiah 43:7, Jeremiah 14:9, Jeremiah 15:16)

The mafia underworld used me as a commodity and in doing so they groomed me and "educated" me to appeal to, appease and mollify the whims and pleasures of both beast and man. My grandmothers taught me to bring out the king in a man by being queenly (a strong elegant woman). "A man may be the head of the family and his household, but it is the wife who turns the head. Where the head is turned. There he sees. There he walks."; "The wife is the rudder of the ship. The mother the heart of the home." It was God who taught me that through living Love for myself that I could "own back" these very elements that were also in me.

There is nothing wrong for a human to tap into his or her "beast" quality, human quality and kingly and queenly qualities. When done in Love (You living your dominion by being yourself being the every essence of God/Love that you are) doing so brings forth life. Without Love or living love, every act then is just a motion a bodily function, an act of necessity, an end, a transaction, a transference, a commodity, useless, null and void -the total opposite of who God and you are. When you allow God/Love freedom here on Earth and accept your freedom in Love/Creator God the power is Super Nova!

Not only did God through the Bible teach me that these qualities were borne in we humans children of the Creator, I also learned to meld them together along with a very key quality or element that is often over looked or squashed or worse, nearly obliterated in each and every one of us...And to be honest, I am still learning. And to be more frank and honest, it is a life long process.

Our being the child of Creator/God/Love. (1John 4:4 "You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because he that is in you is greater than he that is in the world.) Whatever darkness is happening to you, you have the ability as God's child to create a gorgeous outcome. Remember even God was surrounded by Darkness. (Genesis 1:1-3). If your world is dark and you cannot see the light, it is because YOU ARE the light in the darkness. (Matthew 5:14, 15 "You are the light of the world. A city on a hill that cannot be hidden. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candle stand; and it gives light unto the whole house.") When God was surrounded by darkness he said, "Light BE!" and light was.

You are borne of Creator/Love. So No you did not ask to be or to be here and now. However you are. You are here and now. Some of you reading this message are safe and sound waiting for you life challenges which no doubt will happen. And then some of you reading this message were dropped kicked into the lowest levels of Hell on Earth and have been on survival mode ever since. No matter what is happening around you. Getting back to who you really are Child of God/You light/You embodiment of Love is the very answer out of your predicament(s).

It is a truism that most visitors to the Once Upon an Eden website have deep dark stories or some kind of situation that they are trying to get over or escape. I, too, have my own issues that I work on with Creator every day even just to maintain a sense of functionality most days. Dear Visitor, that is the victory and the very sign of your strength. The fact that you are still here on Earth. It takes a warrior's strength to even make it through the day to day most days. We just get so used to doing that we tend to take ourselves for granted. Or we are so stuck in survival mode it is easy to feel invisible and unworthy of even the air we breathe or space we occupy.

"I believe in God, does he believe in me?" ~a teenager suicidal because she was being by used as currency by her parents.

The "troubled youth" who asked me this very dagger sharp poignant question had an epiphany and I had a reawakening when I read out loud these words to her:

Leviticus 19:29 "Do not degrade your daughters by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness. " *

Ephesians 6:4 "And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord."

Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up strife but love covers a multitude of sins."

"You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants. As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness."

Jeremiah 1:5 "“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart"

Zachariah 2:8 "For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His (My) eye."

Luke 17:1,2 ..."Offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come! 2. It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones (a child).

Matthew 18: The disciples came to Jesus asking, "Who is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?"
Jesus called a child to him and set him in the midst of them; and said, "Verily I say unto you, except you be converted and become as a little child, you shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. And whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name receives me. But whosoever shall offend one of these little ones (children), it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea. Woe unto the world because offence! for offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence comes.

After hearing each other, listening to each other and a lot of tears shared between this tender hearted mistreated youth and I , she in her epiphany and I in my reawakening, the reality that we were treasures borne from the stars, Creator's own inner being speaking forth Life ("out of the abundance of the heart flows the issues of life" (Proverbs 4:23), our parents coming together under whatever circumstance, biochemistry, all of this in knitting each of our beings and existence fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm139:4). We were the embodiment of Light, Life borne of Creator/God/Love piercing the darkness with our brilliance that he took delight in. So much delight that he called that precious young lady and myself the apple of his eye. He calls you the apple of his eye. His treasure that He placed in your mother's womb. Even if no one else ever valued you as you are...your Creator sure does.

(Isaiah 54: 11-15 "O you afflicted one, tossed with tempest (battered by storms) and not comforted, look, I will lay your stones with colorful gems, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of rubies and your gates of crystal, and your walls of precious stones. (These are made of star stuff by the way)

All your children shall be taught by the Lord, and great shall be the peace of your children.

In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, it shall not come near you. Indeed they shall surely assemble, but not because of Me. Whoever assembles against you shall fall for your sake.

Men reading this message, thus far, all that I have written applies to you as well. From the time that you were a little tyke knee high to a grasshopper you have been a mighty warrior dealing with life issues that came your way trying to squash the power keg of all things good, wonderful and brilliant that you are -the attributes of Father God that you exemplify just by being yourself. In my mind, at least, it seems, that nowadays the pressures of being a man are more than ever and seem to compound in intensity...

Isaiah 54: 16, 17 "Behold, I have created the blacksmith who blows the coals in the fire, who brings forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the spoiler to destroy. No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment you shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is from Me," says the Lord.

Men, Creator/God/Father/Love sees you too. Challenges come as Iron sharpens Iron (Proverbs: 27:17) you are being forged as a sword. You wield a power in your very existence that is enough to render instruments of potential destruction useless and to silence the chaos of potential storms of life. This power that you possess in your very being is your inheritance as the child of Creator Father God Love.

Psalm 8:2, 4-6 "Out of the mouth of infants and suckling babes you have ordained strength because of your enemies that you might silence the enemy and the avenger. What is man, that you are mindful of him? and the son of man, that you visit with him? You have made him a little lower than the angles, yet have crowned him with your glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of your hands and have put all things under his feet.

Isaiah 62: 3 "You shall be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God."

Proverbs12: 4 "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that makes him ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Isaiah 54:4 "Do not fear, for you will not be ashamed; neither be disgraced, for you will not be put to shame; for you will forget the shame of your youth. And will not remember the reproach of your widowhood anymore.

For your Maker is your husband, The Lord of hosts is His name; and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, He is called the God of the whole earth.

For the Lord has called you like a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, like a youthful wife when you were refused." Says your God. For a mere moment I have forsaken you, but with great mercies I will gather you. With a little wrath I hid My face from you for a moment; but with everlasting kindness I will have mercies on you," Says the Lord your Redeemer."

Whatever your yesterdays or your moments ago that led you here to be on the Once Upon an Eden website, hopefully you have been exposed to facets of your self that you never knew. If you did already know well, hope you enjoyed the reminder.

As a child of God male or female you are the crowning creation of God's glory. You are all he sees and are on his mind...his crowing achievement. His legacy. The gift and treasure that proves his existence. What you do with your life is your achievement. Is your life building legacy? Gift and Treasure of the Most High Your Maker Your Husband the Creator in whose image that you are made what are your creating? what gifts and treasures are you leaving behind which will proving your existence? Whatever you are doing,... do it, Love, as you have been: Choosing Life. (Deuteronomy 30)

Now that we have established your Creator/Father/God (and Husband/Maker) is Love and you were born of Love and are love and your purpose is to love and be loved, the next message will be the characteristics and attributes of Love. After this series we will study the Covenant or the freedom we have living love.

Love and Blessings to you and yours.

From Michelle Carmela