His name is Shane

I'm finally getting around to sharing the story behind Shane's name.  We had been struggling with coming up with a name that we liked that was short and yet strong sounding and was beginning to wonder if maybe we would use his file name of Haden.  We liked Haden but yet it didn't seem special to just use the generic file name.  One night we decided as a family to have 10 minutes of quiet time together with the Lord to listen to what He would tell us for a name.  About 4-5 minutes into it the Holy Spirit says to me his name is Shane.  Then starts the 5 minutes of me arguing because it's not my pick of names and I could list more reasons.  (I'm sorry if your name is Shane!)  When time was up Andrew asked if anyone had heard anything and I'm sitting there thinking I'm not going to speak what I heard because then it speaks it into action.  While the family is talking I'm looking up the meaning of the name Shane.  His name means God is gracious; gift from God.  After reading that I knew I had no choice but to share with everyone what I had been told.  We talked about it off and on for a couple days and then one night I had a dream.  In my dream the Holy Spirit is saying over and over his name is Shane in a very strong way.  I still was being stubborn about this whole name thing and had to argue in my dream again.  Then He said you like the name Laine how is that different from Shane and then I knew that HIS NAME IS SHANE.  We are still getting use to it and are learning to like it.  God has been putting this together in a perfect way and I know that I can trust Him but somehow I thought I had a better name!