Hello Heart Partners! I hope and pray you are all doing well…seeing GOD all around you, sensing HIS presence as you follow HIM! Today, I want to introduce a concept that I learned about my MOST FAVORITE TREES! CROWN SHYNESS is where tall trees do not invade another tree’s space in the canopy, thus leaving small open spaces for SUN LIGHT to filter through to the plants below! Have you ever seen it? When you LOOK UP, you see formations of what I call “LACINESS” but the tree branches never TOUCH one another!!! HMMM…are any images coming to mind yet? Let’s take a glance at my beloved REDWOOD TREES…These beauties leave small spaces in the canopy to virtually CARE for the PLANTS below…allowing photosynthesis to take place!

Now that we are looking at it in GOD GLORIOUS NATURE…let’s see if we can make it personal…Do we practice CROWN SHYNESS with one another? Do we allow GOD to use us as SPACE MAKERS for HIS GLORY and the individual growth of others? Could we as BELIEVERS take PHOTO = LIGHT and SYNTHESIS = putting together, and make space in our personal, professional, and spiritual CANOPIES to allow HIS LIGHT to shine through to the people in our lives that are in a QUESTIONING, or GROWTH PROCESS? Or are we in a place in our journey where we CROWD OTHERS out with our agendas, opinions, or sometimes just words? Let’s take a peek at God’s word…The Sheep and the Goats passages in Matthew 31-46 in The Message tells all…please read the whole passage when you have a chance…(to the goats) vs.41 “Then he will turn to the ‘goats,’ the ones on his left, and say, ‘Get out, worthless goats! You’re good for nothing but the fires of hell. And why? Because I was hungry and you gave me no meal, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, I was homeless and you gave me no bed, I was shivering and you gave me no clothes, Sick and in prison, and you never visited.’ Then those ‘goats’ are going to say, ‘Master, what are you talking about? When did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or homeless or shivering or sick or in prison and didn’t help? He will answer them, ‘I’m telling you the solemn truth: Whenever you failed to do one of these things to someone who was being OVERLOOKED, or IGNORED, that was me—you failed to do it to me.’ vs.46 “then those ‘goats’ will be herded to their eternal doom, but the ‘sheep’ to their eternal reward.” I believe YESHUA is very serious about how we spread our branches and create canopies…as we know HE IS OUR SHELTER, so what are we truly doing moment by moment for the people in our midst? Do we FEAR GOD with reverential FEAR, or do we believe as the ‘goats’ we will get by, we do some good here and there…etc. Do we BELIEVE HIS WORD?

Well, I BELIEVE He is always speaking to us through various things in our world including HIS nature, HIS WORD (of course), others in our lives, strangers, HIS creatures, etc… Lately, as I seek more and more of YESHUA, and less of me, I SEE, HEAR, FEEL HIM so much more! Yesterday I looked out of my kitchen window, like normal…but this time I saw a DEER with a baby beside her! I had thought and thought that there was a family under the tree behind us and yesterday the baby emerged! I immediately THANKED OUR FATHER for HIS CREATURES that speak life, love, and protection! Absolutely God-Amazing!

So, what do you think? Do YOU practice “CROWN SHYNESS?” Are you ready to reshape yourself, your attitudes, your presence, etc. to allow for SPACE for your brothers and sisters to BE WHO THEY ARE CALLED TO BE, and to allow SON-SHINE or SUN-SHINE through the canopy so others can BLOSSOM? Maybe you are to stand TALL and create a protection, or balance for someone…Whatever we are led to do for “the least of these” I pray we DO! I am ready to reshape, and mold into exactly what YESHUA wants me to be in this season!! However HE speaks to you, let this post be a reminder of YESHUA’S creativity, wildness, humor, and most of all DEEP LOVE for YOU!

I pray we can all practice “CROWN SHYNESS,” and witness, minister too, and simply help all those around us…,young, old, new Believer, old Believer, not yet Believer, and any and all put in our path by GOD! May HIS beauty surprise YOU, and May HIS GRACE cause you to PAUSE…YOU ARE SUPER LOVED and SUPER NEEDED! I am always here praying and BELEIVING for YOU!

Shalom,

DanaKae