The thing is that my olde Forde Anglican banger seems like a perfectly good - yay magnificent - vehicle to take me forward in my own personal spiritual growth, and although many of my neighbours have swapped their old Jalopy’s in for a New Age, Evangelical, Mega Church, deluxe model, I think there is a lot of life still left in the cranky old motor yet.
These old vehicles were built to last, and although most Anglicans don’t realise the full depth and breadth of these ancient means of transportation, the quality still shines through for those who take time to examine the weathered log book and take a look close look underneath at the robust chassis.
Not only do we have a fine example of an authentic apostolic mainstream Christian vehicle, (complete with its own Constantinian Imperial death cult interior). It also has a secret esoteric Gnostic glove compartment and it sports some of the finest European Pagan folk traditional body work still to be found in the western world.
As far as I’m concerned all it needs is a bit of a tinker and tweak from a qualified Quantum Mechanic and a dab or two of ‘Global Wisdom, and Inter-Faith Praxis, Fibreglass filler’, and it can soon be back on the road, chugging along magnificently, even better than new.
The trouble is do we really know what a rich treasure we have? And will old crates like these be allowed to continue to rot and decay in our towns and villages because we don’t have the vision to see what a beautiful mode of transport they can still turn out to be? If only we could get rid of our jaundiced view of what they once were, and see the vast potential they still have to provide a usefully practical and reliant run-around, well able to transport our spiritually hungry children around. This is of course providing we can first make the effort to treat them to a huge dose of tender loving care; wash them down thoroughly with a few buckets of deep empathy; and then carefully buff them up with a huge amount of heart felt tolerance and ‘deep shine’ understanding. And I'm not just talking about the Children!
So, anyone up for a bit of old vehicle restoration?
* for those born after 1984 the title of this blog is a parody of the name of an old auto called 'the Ford Anglia'.
