“Mark and Bev Tindall” :

I dabbled in the possibility of agnosticism if the bible were not completely true. At the moment my belief in God does not rest in the bible.

I realized that my “revelation” was mere belief, and that my relationship was with an imaginary entity. This latter conclusion was supported by the distinctly one-sided nature of our supposed interactions.

For me it helped to redefine “interaction”. As a pentecostal I was very experience oriented. When the expriences stopped as a result of health issues in 1980 (being near death is a health issue of great importance …and leads to severe depression!) I had to deal with what

spirituality meant in the real world apart from nice feelings. It also helped me to understand the workings of the mind especilly the subconscious to which I am grateful to Carl Jung. For me spirituality began to include experience but also the mind and daily life …even the most mundane of things. For me God became that in which I lived and not that which invaded me from far away now and then on a Sunday … or other church service … or private prayer time. I could pray unceasingly by having an attitude attitude to the creation in which I was placed. I began to see Christianity as a journey which never ended rather than a terminus.

Robert Frost wrote in his poem “Two Tramps in Mud Time” …

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ … But yeild who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever eally done For Heaven and he future’s sake.

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