[JESUS LISTENS MONTHLY SERIES] Experiencing Joy After Facing Darkness: Chonda Pierce
Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of Jesus Listens: Stories of Prayer, we’ll hear from comedian Chonda Pierce. Chonda’s ability to bring laughter to others is renowned, but as we know, life’s circumstances can threaten to steal our joy. The loss of Chonda’s sisters and then her husband were crushing blows, but through prayer, therapy and the support of others, she shares how she was able to find light again after facing the worst kind of darkness.
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Chonda’s Facebook: @chondapierce
Chonda’s Twitter: @chondapierce
Chonda’s Instagram: @chondapierce
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| 0:00.0 | Find inspiration as close as your phone, download the Jesus Calling app and get started today for free. |
| 0:05.9 | Look for the Jesus Calling app in both the Apple and Google Play Stores. Hi, I'm Susie McIntyre Eaton, and you're watching Jesus listen stories of prayer. |
| 0:24.0 | Shonda Pierce is from Tennessee. |
| 0:26.0 | She was raised in Kentucky. |
| 0:28.0 | She's had lots of trials and tribulations in her life, |
| 0:32.0 | but she's a firm believer that you've got to keep on laughing |
| 0:37.5 | and entice others to laugh because the joy of the Lord is our strength and laughter is like a medicine. |
| 0:46.0 | Just in case there's someone out there that doesn't know Shanda Pierce |
| 0:51.2 | tell us you know kind of how you got started. Why did you choose to get up in front of people |
| 0:58.0 | and entertain with jokes and comedy? |
| 1:02.0 | Well, at first started out because I needed 50 dollars |
| 1:05.0 | I needed the money. |
| 1:08.0 | I went to a theme park years ago |
| 1:11.0 | I was a senior in college |
| 1:12.0 | and I auditioned at a theme park in Nashville, Tennessee. |
| 1:16.0 | So they gave me the part of Minnie Pearl. |
| 1:18.0 | And I, something clicked. I fell in love with hearing people laugh and I do believe, looking back and |
| 1:29.4 | seeing the providential hand of God, I think it was it was medicine for me as much as it was for people |
| 1:36.3 | hearing the laughter and I was at a time in my life both my sisters had passed away |
| 1:42.2 | in terrible unkindly deaths. |
| 1:45.6 | My big sister was killed in a car wreck. |
| 1:47.8 | She was 20. |
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