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 SHANNON’S CORNER

WooHoo!!!  Congratulations!!!

Take a moment to give a shout out and celebrate with me in praising God’s goodness and faithfulness as He has answered our prayers.  I have received the accreditation as a Board Certified Advanced Christian Life Coach.  On July 10th, Safe Place Ministry launched their website that now provides Life Coaching as a service we offer.  Looking back, it is very exciting to see God’s hand on all of this from the beginning of this journey until now, yet how He only lit the next step that was in front of me and not the whole path.  Thank you all for your prayers and support! Rejoice in the Lord always.


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God’s goodness of orchestrating the opportunity for a missionary family who are flying out soon to receive a day of debrief.  A place where the whole family was able to share some of their individual stories and their together story.  God guiding me to share their family together story in a creative way through a story about a family of bears so that we could begin the process of talking through their feelings.


Once upon a time, there was a family of bears, Papa Bear, Mama Bear and four baby cubs.  The bear family ended up leaving their cave in the forest.  The cave was cozy and just right for everyone in the family.  One day, they said their goodbyes to all their animal friends, to deer, rabbit, squirrel, the foxes, and Mr. Owl.  They went to their best fishing hole and said goodbye to their tasty fish and walked to their favorite yummy berry patch and said goodbye while eating some berries.  The bear family traveled in their bear-mobile with all their things to go to a far-off forest, a place they’ve never been, to a new cave, new friends, and new places and foods to eat.  The four baby cubs met some new animals in this new forest – monkey, tapir, and tree frogs but they couldn’t understand what they were saying.  Papa Bear took them to a new fishing hole to fish and the fish didn’t taste the same.  Some fish, like the piranhas because they had to be careful of their sharp teeth.  There were no berries in this forest.  The new cave was smaller, and the cubs had to share spaces.  Eventually, they started making new friends at the animal school, friends called jaguar, toucan, and sloth.  On one day, one of the baby cubs couldn’t play because it wasn’t feeling well.  Mama Bear thought it was something the cub ate and would get better.  But the little cub was not getting any better, so Papa Bear and Mama Bear left the three other baby cubs with a friend while they took the little cub who was sick to the animal hospital to see the animal doctor.  It seemed like a very, very, very long time before the little cub got better and was able to leave the animal hospital.  When Papa Bear and Mama Bear brought the little cub back to the cave all the baby cubs were glad to have little cub back home once again.  The four cubs once again played with their friends in their new forest and new animal school. 



How do you think the bear cubs felt when moving and saying goodbye?  How do you think the bear cubs felt in meeting new animals and learning new ways of doing things?  How do you think the bear cubs felt when their sibling was sick and in the hospital?


Earlier this year a friend shared something that I keep chewing and digesting about donkeys.  In Zechariah 9:9, “…your king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.”  Donkey meaning a beast of burden.  Jesus rides into Jerusalem on a colt of a donkey being our beast of burden as he willingly carries our sin upon himself to death on the cross.  Adding this new thought to what I knew about the donkey representing peace and a colt of a donkey representing royalty it kept coming up again and again, so I did some research to learn more.  Donkeys are not kosher animals.  They do not chew cud, nor do they have cloven hooves.  Thus, the donkey is the ultimate source of impurity.  As a single non-kosher animal, a donkey’s firstborn is considered holy. Yet donkeys cannot be sacrificed nor their firstborn so it must be exchanged for a lamb (Ex. 13:13), since it was not kosher it could not be consecrated.  Another interesting fact is that colts did not make it easy for people to ride them.  So, going back to Jesus Messiah riding on a colt of a donkey – Jesus tamed the colt to be ridden, beast of burden, impurity, firstborn of donkey being exchanged for the Lamb, coming in peace which Jesus is the Prince of Peace, royalty – Jesus the King of kings.  What deep, awe inspiring meaning I now have regarding the triumphal entry leading to the cross.  What burdens do you have to lay on Jesus to carry for you?  I hope this gives you some food for thought to meditate, chew, and digest.


“Blessed are the pure in heart,
    for they will see God.”

Matthew 5:8


PRAYER REQUESTS

Praise the Lord for birthday parties!

Praise the Lord for receiving my accreditation! 

Praise the Lord for launching the Life Coaching service!

Praise the Lord for safety in traveling to do a family debrief in NJ!

 

Pray for Cherry Run Camp – July 29th-Aug 6th.

Pray for me as I teach a bible study at Cherry Run for some junior high youth.

Pray for all the volunteers and speakers.

Pray for couple debrief Aug 8th-Aug 10th.

Pray for wisdom, discernment, and insight as I meet with people either one-on-one or debriefs.


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