My official name online is whys.  If you know me offline you can call me whys or by my birth name, it makes me no never mind. I got the name whys during my time at Kansas State University.  I needed a DJ name for my hip-hop radio show on KSDB 91.9 the Wildcat called streetwys, I didn't want it to be spelled "wise" because I didn't want it to imply I was "wise", so I came up with whys, because it sounded like I was saying "wise" but I was really saying the plural of asking the question why. I thought it was appropriate because I loved asking questions. I loved engaging people to think and question. Anyone that really knows me, knows I am always questioning, always asking what if, thinking the impossible.  Why is the ultimate question. So whys has nothing to do with my intelligence, but it is quite the opposite, it has to do with my ignorance.  I realize there is a lot I don't know or understand, so I seek knowledge through questioning.

I began using this thirst for knowledge to search God's Word. As I grew and developed, this questioning strengthened my understanding of my total dependence on God for knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. The more I searched his Word the more dependent on him I became.  God is the answerer of all my questions (whys). So whys:ideas are God's answers (ideas) flowing through me. 

Ideas general come as such.  I notice something could work better, I notice something is missing, I wish there was something that did or was, I don't understand something, I am perplexed by something, and so I began asking questions, researching, investigating, and observing. Most of my ideas come during or around the time I am praying and fellowshiping with God. I have learned that one of the ways that God blesses me is through ideas. When God opens up the the flood gates of ideas they are so many that I can not hold them.  My wife will tell you, when I am working on something I generally have so many ideas it is ridiculous.  I never have the issue of not having enough good ideas, it is always which one to go with.  So after I have moved and worked with the ideas the Lord has given me, I again, make my way before the Lord to pray and ask for wisdom.  Finally I move in Faith, that God is sovereign, faithful, holy, righteous, merciful, gracious, and good.  Regardless of the ideas I move forward with, it is God who is out before me, ordering my steps.

So whys, was developed from my love of asking questions, to a way of embracing my ignoramce, to an acknowledgement of God's infinite wisdom, mercy, and grace.  So for me to do something whys, is to first acknowledge your own ignorance, to humble yourself to search for the answer and not assume you know.  Secondly, it means to ask questions and to keep questioning, and let the ideas come from the questions.  Thirdly, it means to seek wise counsel, and there is no greater wise counsel than that of the creator, the Alpha and the Omega, "I AM that I AM". Fourthly, to do something whys means to walk by Faith according to the faithfulness, sovereignty, mercy, and grace of "I AM".

1 Cor. 3:18 "Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you thinks that he is wise in this age, he must become foolish, so that he may become wise." (NASB)

James 1:5 "But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him." (NASB)