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Name: Shanna
Country: United States
State: Kansas
Birthday: 6/23/1980
Gender: Female
Interests: SLEEP, I don't get that very often, and I love to read or just hang out with people.
Expertise: i don't think that i really have an "area" of expertise. i know a lot of bits to things but as for a complete area, i don't really have that. if anyone else has some ideas for me you should let me know
Occupation: Executive
Industry: Entertainment
Message: message meEmail: email me
Member Since:
11/24/2002
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| wow! Over a year since my last post on here...that's just crazy. So much has happened in that amount of time, met the man, got a ring in feb and answered yes, married in July and now living in Japan. No more Master's for me and I miss it very much at times, but I always said I was there till God moved me and move me he did. I love being married and I have a really amazing husband. Handsome too, we are expecting a little girl mid may and she moves around ALOT! It's really the coolest feeling, I always thought I would feel like I have an alien inside but it doesnt. I love to feel her move even when she wakes me up in the night...Awesome feeling. I kinda miss the simplicity of Xanga, still getting used to facebook but I'm getting there :) Happy New Year to all!! | | |
| Well, xanga, you have been missed, I still read my updates from other people but I haven't updated my own for many moons. So sorry! Just want you all to know that I have met the man I believe I am going to marry! For reals! I've waited for so long it still doesn't really seem true but it is. He is an amazing man of God and embodies all of the qualities that I have been looking for. Pretty exciting stuff!!! Well you are now updated! | | |
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whew! keep it comin ;)
Well,
in the tradition of the year thus far we are still movin like crazy!
Since my last post we went to Idaho, had a fabulous trip and came home.
i got to see most of my family while we were there, they are amazing ;)
We came back and got things ready for Palm sunday and then Easter and
that one was fun. At the church friday night with Lee and Isaiah trying
to get the plexi glass to fit in spots that were not square. We were
there till 5am,they didn't fit, great idea, but we couldn't make it
work. Boy did we ever try! So leave at 5 am and back at 9:15am work all
day get it all ready about an hour and a half before service. The team
did "Now Behold the Lamb" for service and it was incredible. I think
there were 63 confirmed salvations. It's amazing the things you learn
in Master's Commission! Last week I learned all you want to know about
styrene and plexiglass and this week it's been tropical plants and
ficus trees. Haha! I think it's fun.I['m glad I have a job I enjoy most
of the time. Ahhh what will it be next?!
How you treat the Creation is a direct result of how you view the Creator.
Interesting thoughts
I
just heard a story about a man in a village who went to a dentist in a
city.The man had really bad infection in his teeth and no money to pay
the dentist.The dentist decided to do the work even though the man had
no way to pay.The villager was so grateful to the dentist but no word
in their language to say thankyou. so he told the dentist, I will tell
others of your name. Meaning he would live out his thankfulness by
telling others about what the dentist had done for him.
Sometimes
I wish I had never learned the word thankyou. I want to live my life
thankful for my God. What an amazing concept and I think I do to a
degree but I want to even more. Hmmm... | | |
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A lesson for the Ladies!
So last night at Juniper, God and I had a good laugh.
A
little background first...I grew up on a dairy farm in Idaho. I have
one older brother and three younger sisters and it was a family
buisness. Meaning that all of us kids learned how to work.My dad also
did construction on the side. I wanted to to everything that the boys
could do, I wanted to be valuable to my daddy in the buisness. So, by
the time I was 12 I was working concrete with my dad and brother,
milking, feeding, bucking hay and straw, wrestling bulls...you name it
I could do it. And I was good at it. I think the hardest thing for me
to learn when I first came to Master's was how to be a lady and how to
help the men around me be the men they were supposed to be. In doing
so, we taught each other how to operate in the roles God had created us
for. I learned how to give the guys opportunities to treat me like a
lady, ya know carry stuff for me or open the doors and such. I just
never wanted to be viewed as weak. I've since learned that I'm not
supposed to be my own protector. So all that said, I have learned a lot
- but sometimes I need reminded to be a lady. I'm not afraid of work
but I'm realizing what is appropriate in the moment.
So.... this
takes us to last night after we took all our kids back and we were
loading chairs in the van. (I like to get the work done as quickly as
possible and in working with my dad we take stacks of 10 to keep the
count easier and generally there are only 2-3 of us so it goes faster,
more efficient.) Anyway, I squat down to pick up my chairs and my pants
split from the waistband almost to the back of my knee. Thank you Jesus
no one was in the entry with me when it happend! So here I am standing
with these chairs in my hands and I can't put them down and I can't
check the rip, I just know it's bad. So I hope my coat is covering and
I take them out and discreetly put them by the side of the van. I edge
my way to the drivers seat and get in. I was laughing so hard inside
but I couldn't check how bad it was in mixed company so I just sat
until I dropped off the van at the church and got a change of pants out
of my car. What's really funny is that these pants are the baggiest
ones I own. I have to wear a belt to keep them up, don't have to undo
them to pull them off...the material is really thin but anyway...
So
the lesson learned was, Shanna, everyone knows you are strong, don't
show off, let the men be men and carry the chairs. It's ok to make your
limit 4, you're not working on the farm or with your daddy. The work
will get done! Remember you are a lady and cherish it ;) haha!!!!
Ladies learn from my moment! | | |
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On the brink...
I
feel something coming and I'm not sure what it is. I told Amanda last
night, "Something is different, I feel different but I can't put my
finger on it." I really don't know what it is, I feel ready though.
That's weird, how can you feel ready for something and not know what
you are ready for? It doesn't really make sense. This last trip just
seemed like an intense learning time to me, I felt like a sponge
soaking up all that God had to show me. At the sunday night service in
Cali after it was over and we had prayed for people, Pastor Chris
called us all up and prayed over us. Then he prayed over us
individually, I was one of the last ones, everything he said was right
on. The coolest thing was he poured oil in my hands, not just a little
but a lot. It was pooled in my hands and dripping. He talked about the
annointing in my hands to reach people for God and that my heart is
for people, which is very true, my greatest desire is that people would
truly know God for who He is. But what he said next blew me away and if
you know me you will understand why... he was quiet for a moment and
then he said, these are the hands of a working woman. Not hands of a
manicure but for work, and that God was going to weed out the people
that are playing games and bring me people who seriously want God.
I've
felt God's presence so much since that night, and I'm changing the way
that I pray...there is so much more of God than I know. God, who am I?
I'm ready for you to define me more. | | |
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