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My Broken Faith

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Disclaimers up front: This is a very personal post about how my faith has evolved over the course of our experiences with my daughter and the community she opened our eyes to.  It is by no means an indication that I am done refining these thoughts.  Imperfectness abounds in the paragraphs ahead, but no matter how personal it is I am never opposed to open discussion, it's the very thing that has gotten me this far. 4 years For four years now I have tried to write this post.  The problem is every time I would finish pages of monologue only to realize I veered off into a place that made the weeds look welcoming.  I would be unsatisfied with my theology, abandon the whole thing, consult my closest faith mentors, and start from square one.  So here we are, touching the page again, in hopes this version actually makes it out.  My intent is to write this as an autobiographical account of the last four years, what they have shown me, and how they have forever changed me.  All in h