Motivation

Much of my motivation in life has been to get positive attention. Whether telling a joke as a kid or podcasting as an adult, much of my motivation has been to hear people say, "Look what Shane's doing. What a great guy!"

I don't like this about myself. I should look to God for validation. John 7:38 talks about rivers of living water flowing out of one's heart. My motivation and power should come from the inside, via the Holy Spirit, instead of from th outside. When I look to other people for praise, it is never enough.

My primary reason for starting my podcast was to promote myself and my creative writing. Nothing wrong with that, but now I want Yondercast to be about more than myself. Instead of using the podcast to pull attention toward myself, I want the podcast to have internal power. I want those rivers of living water to flow out of the podcast.

Yondercast 015 - Redeeming the Time

thisis

thisis no time for punctuation
thisis no time to read slowly
thisis desperation of no retreat possible
thisis gasping looking around reaching
thisis understanding just standing there
dangerous undercurrents boil over
cold snowdrift feet
thisis like loneliness but its not
thisis end of brain jumble
thisis start of jungle
thisis toughbootssharpmachete time

Tear It Down

by the Unnormals, found on the Podsafe Music Network.

Mail

• Hey Bud! Just wanted to thank you for using my song on your podshow. Glad you enjoyed it enough to wanna use it! Rock on- ~Angel V

• Hey Shane I loved the last cast, especially the bit about being someones hero. I couldnt help but thinking that maybe celebrities like Britney Spears snap from trying to be the perfect role model, and lets face it, they're only human. Once again, loved the show. Dave
• I have listen to your show for a while and figured it was a good time to just drop you a supportive comment. I really enjoy your podcast wheather your reading a poem, talking about life, or wondering.
  I have to admit I was drawn to you podcast when I heard it ad and the city of St. Catharines was dropped. Guess what..You got a fan in your city. I will admit I have looked twice around the Fairview Mall and That's Entertainment. Looking for a guy on what seems to be a cell.
  Keep up the good work and give my best to your dad whom I also enjoy listening too.
  And yes my best to sifi too. Jon
  

Announcements

• Can't make Podcamp Toronto. I was looking forward to it, especially meeting Sean McGaughey, but my church's winter youth retreat moved to the same weekend.
  

Support Group

• C.S. Lewis of his age.The Prime Example of right and wrong. The nicest, funniest, wisest, smartest guy you know and a legend among men...Brian Steinhoff
  

• The man with several aliases J.C., Big Jon, Jonney, Mortie Alalawisis Bloomberg...Here's Jonathan Cayen

• The Divine Miss I, the one and only Lady Knight of Chasity... Robin Isaac

Not Me!

There are three types of material I can legally read on the show:

• Material I receive permission to read, like the poems of Rob the Honourable Box-Cutter.
• Material in the public domain, like the works posted at gutenberg.org.
  
• Material under a Creative Commons license, found at creativecommons.org.

Today's reading is "Exactly What I Wanted" from Wil Wheaton's latest book, The Happiest Days of Our Lives, which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License!

Intro

I am Shane Shennan, you are a Traveller, and this is Yondercast 014, the "I've Got Mail!" Edition!

There is a Facebook group. There is a Vox group. Emails have been flying back and forth like crazy since Yondercast 013. You may remember that I threatened to change your name from Traveller to Blank Face if I didn't hear from you. Well, I have certainly heard from you! Some of the people I have heard from are Adam, Dave, Kory, Sean, Brian, Robin, Jordan, Andrew, and last but not least, Rob!

Yes, Rob the Honourable Box-Cutter is a real person. He is a high school student I have the honour of working with each and every Saturday. Writing and music are Rob's favourite ways to pass time. He writes when there's a lot of stuff on his mind or he can't find a way to say something. Rob, thank you so much for letting me use your poem "Time Will End" on the show.

Audio Comment!

Sean McGaughey, Singer Songwriter, Podcast-- For the Sake of the Song- Conversations with Song

Check out http://ductapeguy.net http://seanmcgaughey.net http://cc.ductapeguy.net
Sean is going to Podcamp Toronto, a free 2 day conference February 23 and 24, 2008. Check it out at http://podcamptoronto.wordpress.com.

Adam's TF2 Includes Narnia

For the last few weeks, Adam has been working on a special map for the game Team Fortress 2. The lamppost and various lighting effects have taken about 3 hours. His ingame nickname is Mr. Eagle [CP], and he is a moderator for the Control Point community (The Control Point servers are really the only places he plays). People can contact him through Steam, using my ingame name or my real name, Adam Muir.

Find the Control Point Podcast at http://www.deadworkers.com/tf2/

Support Group

On this segment of the show, I'm going to share what listeners have posted in the Facebook group and the Vox group.

Where Credit Is Due

The theme music is Lost Mind by ParaVerse.

The rocking background music is As the Sky Lay Burning by Angel Vivaldi, found on the Podsafe Music Network.

The acoustic instrumental song is Sleepy Song by MDL, found on the Podsafe Music Network.

The complete, non-background song The World Is You by Jealousy Curve, found on the Podsafe Music Network.

Wandercast 004 - Robin and Andrew's Trip to Kenya

Listen to the interview at http://feeds.feedburner.com/yondercast.

I interview my friends Robin and Andrew about their recent mission trip to Kenya!

Find out more about Harbour Global Missions.

The theme music is Lost Mind by ParaVerse.
The outro music is Light of the Heart by Suzanne Teng, provided by Magnatune.