The Ancient Mariner

For sometime now since returning to Plymouth I have struggled to find a church in which I can serve God and am using the blog to explore possible explanations which make sense to my understanding of scripture.    One was Lev 16 v7:8.     A secular alternative is the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.     The mariners ship is blown way off course and gets lost in  the Antarctic.   An albatross appears and guides them back on course only for the mariner to shoot it dead with his crossbow.     The other sailors outraged force him to wear it forever around his neck.    The death ship then appears and all of them except the mariner dies leaving the mariner alone.   He is thus forced to sail alone in his ship forever unable either to die or land.   The tale end when he meets an holy man who removes the bird from his neck and sets him free of the curse.

A person who is on the national team of Lydia and is known for having a great spiritual inside and gift of discernment has apparently said that God as shown her I have no spiritual connectivity and I should not be allowed within a group leadership structure.    I don’t know what spiritual connectivity means but it kinda makes sense for no one seems to connect with me or allow me to have any connectivity with them.   Maybe she is therefore right but what do I do to make or restore that connectivity.     Maybe like the ancient mariner I have shot with my little bow and arrow the little cock robin.   Or some other form of sacred bird and now am destined to sail the seven seas forever with it around my neck.    Never again to land but continue until maybe I find a holy man  who like in the story of the Ancient Mariner will remove it from around my neck.    This then is the search for that man.