"FutureSmitten/LoveSounds"

Talking about dating, hook ups etc, has really made me think…being an unmarried guy means I am right there with you in this adventure…what adventure…the one where you find the love of your life and you invest your lives in God and each other!

I think that it is clear that we have to walk tough, confusing, often lonely roads before that happens. What is the purpose in that? Why hold fast and believe for it to happen in the midst of it all?

I know there are days that I think…Perfect isn’t there…I have been in a place in my life when I thought it was…however as we know ‘life happens.’ So what now? What do you do when you find yourself in that place? What do you do when you date and feel that there is little hope in finding, not just perfect, because it doesn’t exist, but perfect for you and Gods plan for you? I would love to hear your thoughts…more later


shane

beats...

not sure if you live your life inside the sphere of your iPod or not...but if you are like me you are always adding to your quiver of music...Jeremy and i were at lunch today and started rappin out about music and hes was like 'why dont you blog that stuff.' so here we are...a little addition you need to make to your collection...check um out...

http://www.tenthavenuenorth.com/

shane

Back to the Future

'we have grown up with the experience of our parents and grandparents that people can and must plan, develop, and shape their own lives, and that life has a purpose, about which people must make up their minds, and which they must then pursue with all their strength. but we have learned by experience that we cannot plan even for the coming day, that what we have built up is being destroyed overnight, and that our life, in contrast to that of our parents, has become formless or even fragmented. in spite of that, i can only say that i have no wish to live in any other time than ours, here and now, even though it is so inconsiderate of our outward well being.' -Dietrich Bohoeffer


sitting at a late dinner last night i had a profound realization...good conversation and great company propelled my thoughts to destiny and well just life in general...many of you don't know me well, but if you catch me in that time a place, deep in thought about life, heads up...i will talk your ear off...haha who would thought Shane liked to talk??

my conversation lead to a place where i was confronted with the realization of all that God has done in and through me. if you are like me, quite often your consider all the places that you come up short, and in reality all the places you long to see changed...i was challenged with this thought, 'why dont you see all that you have done and are doing as accomplishments to be proud of?' i stopped and for a brief moment i was speechless (imagine that Shane speechless, haha). and then it hit me, for so long i have lived working toward greatness that i never stop and recognize the greatness around me...

i never stop and realize the miracle of things as profound as PURE, or as simple as the 8 people who committed their lives to Jesus just a few weeks back...and yet it will happen again...in just 2 days, hundred of young adults will arrange and rearrange their busy, socially laden schedules to do something profound...they will participate in community. a community that is not about them, but about something bigger...bigger and more profound than myself or any of you...that to me is a miracle...

while so many of us strive for more and look at what has happened in each of our lives as insignificant...there must be a determination in our hearts and a resolve in our thoughts that while this is not enough...what God has done is worth talking about...

what does that mean?? it means so many of you need to invite those around you to wednesday nights...invite those who need an authentic and rooted reality...those that need to make life about something other than their blind ambition...

be there...

shane