but he is 100 percent man I have ever met,” High said. full man all the way.” “He is definitely a When the Whites are not on the lake, they are glass half full pervery active members at son.” After that first Liberty Grove Baptist outing, the Whites Church, where Shane is made new friends the building funds manager. He has also and Shane rediscovbegun to share his testiered his love of watersports. mony. “We love hang“Sharing my testimony is not something ing out with Patt I like doing, but it is my and Kees,” Shane said. “They have ministry,” he said. “It shown me a lot of For the moment: Five years after Shane’s accident, he feels more alive is not that I don’t like it. I love it when I do a different things to than he ever has and thanks God for what he has brought into his life. do on the water.” good job because God One of the most recent advencause if he was getting himself up blesses me through the way I feel. tures was in March after High and and to my dock by 8 a.m. there was But when I don’t go in prepared and Collee bought a kite. no way he wasn’t going to try it out, do a bad job, I whoop myself for it.” “Kite boarding is awesome,” too. Shane feels like God has a plan Shane said. “It’s where you have a “And, it took only once and he for him and he is here to carry it out. special kite attached to you and was up. He is just that athletic and “I know I don’t do everything in when you do a jump on your wake- coordinated.” God’s will but I am more in God’s board, you go even higher.” High and Collee have known will than I have ever been,” he said. High invited Shane to be more of Shane and Ashley for almost two “I have turned my life around, and I a spectator considering it was toyears and consider them great am loving life more than I ever have. ward the end of March and the wa- friends. ter hadn’t warmed up yet. “They are the nicest people you Family photo courtesy of Heart’s De“When I invited him, I told him could ever meet,” High said. “He sire Photography in Ashland. It was he didn’t have to get in the water,” has a little bit different perspective High said. “But he just laughed be- and is a little bit shorter than we are, taken by Shauna A. Denney.
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