{"id":678,"date":"2018-03-10T14:35:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2018-03-10T14:35:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T14:35:21","slug":"inspiration-from-st-patricks-and-red-pandas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration from St. Patrick’s and Red Pandas"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What in the world do red pandas and St. Patrick have in common? Most people know very little accurate information about both.\u00a0 And for me, both are inspirational figures that help me rise above the lowest common denominator of my debased nature.<\/p>\n

The first similarity is that both are usually known by common pseudo names.\u00a0 Firefox and Lesser Panda are often the names to describe the red pandas.\u00a0 \u00a0St. Patrick’s name originated at his birth was Maewyn Sucat, not Patrick.\u00a0 He took on Patrick decades later when he trained in the Catholic Church in France to become a Bishop.\u00a0 The second would be the inspiration that I derive from both.<\/p>\n

St. Patrick was Roman British, not Irish.\u00a0 He was born in an economically privileged home in Brittan, and some accounts report that he usually behaved as a spoiled one.\u00a0 The nearest country neighbors were not friendly and the political envy and strife that describe many today rampantly prevailed in the hearts on both sides.<\/p>\n

Supposedly,\u00a0\u00a0Maewyn\u00a0 behaved as the typical spoiled teen with little interest in moral much less faithful behavior and beliefs.\u00a0 One day he was nearby waters that Irish raiding pirates sailed, landed, captured him, and took him back to Ireland where he was sold into slavery. The job he was enslaved to was shepherding.<\/p>\n

The combination of the humility of slavery,\u00a0 separation from all he knew,\u00a0 and time alone out doors caring for the animals began to change him.\u00a0 \u00a0Teaching\u00a0 received in his youth from his family and church began to speak to him in his heart.\u00a0 But, first, his natural human response, is what he does…run away.<\/p>\n

When the opportunity presented he escaped back to his home.\u00a0 There he finished a formal education and felt called to enter the priesthood.\u00a0 A dream convinced him that he was called to go back to minister to the Irish.\u00a0 \u00a0But, he was turned down many times by the church hierarchy.\u00a0 However, this only burdened his heart more and compelled him to persevere.<\/p>\n

Who would do this?\u00a0 These people kidnapped him and sold him against his will and economic condition when he was just a teen boy.\u00a0 Yet, he was a changed individual who now knew personally and experienced the love and forgiveness of his Creator through a Savior.\u00a0 This is why.\u00a0 Personally encounters with the living God requires a life change.\u00a0 One can no longer live the status quo or clamber up the ranks of personal promotion.\u00a0 Instead a life of humble service and courageous leadership ensues.<\/p>\n

When St. Patrick taught the Irish, he did so through what was already known to them.\u00a0 He took the elements of the pagan worship that had some truths, magnified those, and then gently corrected the flaws.\u00a0 He used the nature around them to teach basic tenets of the Christian faith.\u00a0 The one\u00a0 most see marketed today is the 3 leaf clover of which he conveyed the unique godhead properties of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit yet being the same one true and living God.<\/p>\n

It was this style of teaching that I see as similar with my writing and inspiration that I found through the red pandas.\u00a0 So many metaphors of life came to me as I listened to the zoo visitors respond, “That’s not a panda, where are the pandas?”\u00a0 It is through these literary associations that I compare the red pandas to giant pandas for little Rojo to work through her identity crisis that has spiraled her into an emotional pity party that if left unchecked by her mother will spiral into a full blown MDM (Major Depressive Episode).<\/p>\n

Check one of them out further for yourself.\u00a0 Rojo is available at Chattanooga Zoo, Zoo Miami, Books and Books, The Bookstore in the Grove, and at most online retailers including the publisher\u00a0Mascot Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/st-patricks-day\/who-was-saint-patrick<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.ireland.com\/en-us\/articles\/st-patricks-day\/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMI74eP8fDh2QIVgrjACh1EAwj0EAAYASAAEgJs8PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds<\/p>\n

#St. Patrick #RedPandasandSt.Patrick’s Day #St. Patrick’s Day<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What in the world do red pandas and St. Patrick have in common? Most people know very little accurate information about both.\u00a0 And for me, both are inspirational figures that help me rise above the lowest common denominator of my debased nature. The first similarity is that both are usually known by common pseudo names.\u00a0 … Continue reading Inspiration from St. Patrick’s and Red Pandas<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":693,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}