Personal Narrative: My Personal Worldview

My personal worldview of what I believe to be true and why I believe it to be true as well as how does it apply to my day to day life are questions which I ask myself frequently. How do I express myself to others so they understand what it is that I believe, why I believe and how my daily decisions affect me day to day? How does God fit into my worldview, how is evil conquered within my world? Christmas Eve 2016 I sit waiting for my children to wake, this is the first time in 10 months we as a family have been together, the first time in two years we have been together to celebrate Christmas, but because of my sons travel schedule with the military we had to do our celebrations on the 22nd and 23rd of December. Our son had to leave on the
The Robinson family has many traditions which we are proud of, the most special traditions which we have is going to Nana and Grampa’s for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day celebrations. Since this year we had to change our dates around to accommodate the military we want to make sure the tradition stayed the same. Jesus is always our focus of our celebration. The reason why we come together each year, give gifts, sing and pray. This year was more about the celebration than the “greed” which is associated with the commercial piece of Christmas. In the article, “How to let go of the greed and celebrate the true meaning of Christmas”, Flanders states, “the day will be less about gifts for them and more about celebrating Jesus”. (p 15) For me this means I was able to concentrate on spending quality time with my children and spouse; rather than running from store to store attempting to purchase something that will make my family “happy” rather than fulfilled. Flanders discusses the song The Twelve Days of Christmas, which was created by adults to teach budding Catholics about believing in God, she states, “the “true love” mentioned is God, and “me” in the song refers to all baptized individuals.” (p
“As a person God expresses emotions such as anger, (Ps 30:5), love (1 John 4:8 -10), and sorrow (Gen 9:6; Isa. 63:10)”. (p 96) As a child of God I am surrounded by non-believers; I am questioned about my faith and how can believe in something that no one can see. I am sometimes even questioned by my own family as they are not complete believers. They see the wonders God is capable of and His blessings He has bestowed upon us, but I am still faced with questions. Hannon is a committed atheist, yet on a camping trip with friends after being diagnosed with breast cancer, although she says “there were no visions, no prophetic voice or visits by totemic animals, just this blazing everywhere.” Something had touched her, something that she is unable to explain or put into words, other than “ecstasy”! This was her first encounter with God, she goes on to tell of her other encounters and tells how her world became more accepting and bright and her real world was no longer lifeless and cold. Hannon may still identify as an atheist, but she will not be able to deny the sense of something more powerful than she on her camping trip. I feel God with me each and every day. Sire states, “unlike the notion of space or time or being, God is not a conception we must have before we think about God.” (p 101) He just