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So this was a feeling that you attributed to god?
perhaps not quite. in that moment i felt a profound sense of connection to God. would i have been moved otherwise? perhaps. not in the same way, i suspect.
"Was it the inspiration you felt? "
I was talking about my experience, though i strongly suspect that many of those involved in the original incident would describe it in religious terms. mining towns in kentucky in the 70's were fairly religious places.
"I guess I could call it anything and interpret it as anything. God is one of many options."
Yeah. One could...though i'd ask that that interpretation was a lens that actually helped see something. it would need to be thoughtful, ethically concerned, reflective, self-critical, and able to respond to life.
"I'm sure the submission to a higher being would rest the pressure I feel on a daily basis to be a complete person"
It could. Not the way i feel about it, but some people do use religion to stop improving themselves. I'd follow Barth in saying that such a religion is idolitrous, worshipping the incomplete human who has told the lie that it is perfect. Grace is a calling, not an answer. Grace demands response, initiates relationship, begins change.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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