Shane Claiborne's Irresistible Revolution is causing my brain to fry from all the thinking and discovering I am doing while reading. I am inspired by Shane's devotion and desire to help the homeless and poor. I am amazed and Simply Way and their 'average days'. Yet I can't help but ask the question when I read all of this 'What am I suppose to do?'
As a soon-to-be freshman in college, I am constantly thinking of my future, my major, my where-I-want-to-be-in-five-years goals etc. I use to think I had everything planned out; finish high school, go to college, get a job, get married, have a family and live happily ever after. Now I'm having trouble planning past a month. I can feel God changing my plans, but I don't even know what they are. I don't know if I'm a person who can go downtown during class and hang out with the homeless to save an abandoned church and risk being arrested. I want to share God with his children, but I don't know how I'm suppose to do that.
The Revolution is opening my eyes and creating ideas and causing me to research. Shane's hero Dorothy Day is an amazing woman who started with a small newspaper that sold for a penny a copy that sprouted into many relief homes around the country and generated hundreds of followers. St. Francis of Assisi was also another amazing man who was restless and wanted to do more. Even though I am not Catholic, I find the dedication of these two people incredible and inspiring.
The question keeps swirling in the back of my head as I take in all Shane has to share about his journey: What am I suppose to do? Also, when I do figure out what I'm suppose to do, will I be able to?
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