Piecing Shattered Dreams into a Beautiful Story: Shannan Martin

For The Love With Jen Hatmaker Podcast

Jen Hatmaker

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

When we’re kids, we each think about the lives we want when we’re older. What if you worked hard for years to make that dream—a loving husband, doting children, a farmhouse with a literal white-picket fence—a reality? And then, all of a sudden, you’re picking the shards of your realized childhood dream off the ground? That’s what happened to Shannan Martin—and she couldn’t be more thankful. Shannan is a writer and speaker from Goshen, Indiana, who is one of Jen’s literal favorite people. Today we’ll hear how Shannan found her voice in the country and her story in the city, and about her new book The Ministry of Ordinary Places. We’ll learn how she and her jail-chaplain husband Cory found their four children, including one who was a nineteen-year-old father of twins when he came to them, and how Shannan and Cory have learned to parent each of their adopted children. We’ll talk about how to become good neighbors with people who come from different walks of life, whose path to the present doesn’t resemble ours at all, and why sometimes staying in a place you don’t feel completely comfortable in can be one of the bravest things you can do.

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0:00.0	Hi everybody, my name is Remy.
0:03.6	Welcome to the For the Love Podcast with your host, Jen Hatmaker, my mom.
0:09.3	She writes books and speaks to crowds, but she mostly loves talking to amazing people
0:14.8	on this podcast every week.
0:17.2	Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoyed the show.
0:20.0	Hey everybody, it is Jen Hatmaker here, your happy hostess on the For the Love Podcast.
0:25.5	Welcome to the show.
0:26.7	So we're in the middle of our For the Love of Books series and it has been a blast B-L-A-S-T.
0:36.6	We have talked to some of the most crazy talented writers and thinkers and I'm not joking, I
0:41.2	have loved every single minute of it.
0:42.9	And all across the spectrum, every kind of writer and interesting thinker, I just love
0:47.8	it.
0:48.8	And you've been fabulous listeners by the way.
0:50.9	Thank you for welcoming this wide array of guests with open arms and with intelligence.
0:56.0	I'm always so proud of you and when writers are like, ah, tell me about your listener,
1:00.6	I'm like, don't you worry, they're the best.
1:03.4	And so I can't wait for you to meet.
1:05.6	Some of you will have positively already known her, but some of you are going to meet
1:08.7	my new guest today and she is, I'm not joking, I'm not joking.
1:12.8	This is one of my favorite people and I love her.
1:18.6	This is Shannon Martin on today, she's a speaker, she's a writer who essentially, as she says,
1:24.9	we found her voice in the country and found her story in the city.
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