Thanksgiving when you aren’t feeling thankful
Yesterday, our Pastor preached a Thanksgiving message that relied heavily on the nostalgia of family holidays. I can certainly relate to that. As a child, holidays were a wonderful time. I remember Thanksgiving as a day spent happily with family and with a lot of food and discussion. By the time I reached high school, […]
The most important thing a Dad can do for his kids.
I was married young… too young. To be honest, our relationship did not get off to a great start. I think most of the time when a couple marries at nineteen and has a child at twenty they are asking for things to be more challenging than they might have otherwise been. Still, in about […]
California Fires: Finding Beauty in the Animal Evacuations
Something Unexpected There were two weeks in October that didn’t go as I expected. On Monday, October 9th, my wife was following the developing Northern California fires online when she saw that they were woefully shorthanded at the large animal evacuation site near us. We decided to spend a few hours the next morning volunteering. […]
My Testimony…Hope Story…Why I believe.
If you have spent any time in the evangelical church you have heard people talk about sharing their testimony. If you don’t know what that means, a person’s testimony is basically their story of why they believe in God and what that has meant to their life. Some people have very dramatic stories about how […]
An Inauguration Prayer
Dear Lord, patient and forgiving Father, all-knowing God who sees our hearts even as we can’t, I pray for our country even as the inauguration of our 45th president, Donald Trump, is taking place. I pray that we would be a country of peace that seeks equality and justice for all without our borders. I pray […]
A Time for Faith on View
When I first started writing here at Faith on View, I wrote on the About page that one of my core values was transparency. I didn’t realize at the time that whether or not we should be transparent was actually a somewhat controversial idea. There are certainly dangers that transparency brings. You open yourself up […]
A Priestly Funeral
It has been a hard week. I received some bad news about my PhD program on Monday and then a few minutes after reading that e-mail I got an e-mail that my PhD Advisor had passed away. To be honest, the news of the day sparked an anxiety attack which ended up sending me to […]
What’s So Hard About Being An Adult With Autism?
There’s a phrase I frequently repeat that goes like this: “There is no such thing as an Autistic adult.” I adopted this phrase after reading the hyperlinked blog post and often repeat it when I’m frustrated. In truth, I often find myself frustrated. Any who follow this blog will know that my husband is the primary […]
Would Jesus Unfriend Them on Facebook?
Would Jesus unfriend them on Facebook? What a silly fruitless question… maybe. Recently, I was challenged on the issue of love. I think this is something that is actually good for us all to go through. It is so easy to get complacent and just assume we are being loving. In the course of the […]
The Development of an Artistic Voice, Part 3… The Hatching Series
If you have not read Part 1 or Part 2 of this series you may want to do so prior to reading this installment. I’ve let this series lag for far to long but I am finally getting back to it. As a reminder the idea of this series is to trace the development of my artistic […]