My name is Shane, and the name of this blog came out of the Wikipedia entry on “The Life of Riley”:

“Living the life of Riley” suggests an ideal life of prosperity and contentment, possibly living on someone else’s money, time or work. Rather than a negative freeloading or golddigging aspect, it instead implies that someone is kept or advantaged.

I can’t imagine anything that describes my life better than “kept or advantaged.”  God has always been unbelievably good to me in spite of all I’ve done.  He’s kept me from things I tried very earnestly to get into and has already blessed me far more than I ever would have imagined.

This blog is a stream-of-consciousness look into my life as I work out my salvation and try to live a life worthy of his calling.  I’m not sure what that will end up looking like, but we’ll know soon enough : )