Ep 6 Guest Episode: Artist/Teacher striving to be a better human

In this week's episode we bring on our first guest to Handbook for Humanity, Austin Matherne. Austin is an artist and high school teacher based in south Louisiana. Listen as Colby and Becki ask Austin to paint several word pictures describing how his career, faith and life have been impacted by our recently discussed topics of Solitude, Shame and Gift of Self. Quote mentioned by Becki proposing an invitation to wonder at God's apparent quality of being unwearied by repetition and restarting in creation: "Grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony, but perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. God may say every morning 'Do it again" to the sun, and every evening, Do it again' to the moon. It may not be an automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike, it may be that God makes every daisy separately but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy: for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." -G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy Handbook for Humanity is a production of the Desormeaux Foundation, a non-profit that works to support and celebrate life.  If you would like to learn more about the work of the foundation supporting women in crisis pregnancy, visit desormeauxfoundation.org. If you would like to support the foundation and the efforts of Handbook for Humanity to teach the truth about our bodies and sexuality, please visit https://desormeauxfoundation.org/donate/ and choose Theology of the Body of Acadiana in the funds field.