Remembering

“There is more—more than what the Church has told you.”

I had been a Lutheran pastor for twenty-nine years when I sensed an inner, inaudible voice telling me this.

Listening to that inner voice led me to a wonderful friendship with Echo Bodine, who is a psychic, and to explorations of Buddhism, Sufism, the Tao Te Ching, meditation centers, reincarnation, Aramaic, and much more.

Do you sense there is more? A deeper truth about yourself, God, and reality, that wants to be known and lived?

This book reveals my true journey, told within the framework of a fictional story. The main character, Sam, is intrigued when he hears that the message of Jesus is to know and live from the Divine that is naturally within him, in everyone, and in everything.

This leads us to deep conversations in a tavern, on a boat, at a playground, in the woods, under the stars, in a sanctuary, on a golf course, at home watching comedy and the news, and at a hospice home.

The discussions that Sam and I have about our own struggles, questions, and discoveries eventually lead us to affirm that we are here to grow into the love from which our souls emerged.

Welcome to the conversation.

You are love.

Tim

Tim Tengblad was a Lutheran pastor for thirty-five years. He served three congregations in Ohio and Minnesota. Tim's focus now is on encouraging people to listen to and follow their own inner knowing, which will lead them to a broader, more inclusive spirituality.He writes a column, I Remember Now, on echobodine.com. He has appeared on Echo Bodine's Enough Is Enough (Bold Brave TV) and her podcast Intuitive Living. He has also been a guest on Jen Weigel's podcast, I'm Spiritual, Dammit.

Echo Bodine first discovered she was born with psychic abilities and the gift of healing at the age of 17. Her abilities include clairvoyance (seeing), clairaudience (hearing), clairsentience (sensing), and clairgustance (smell). She took psychic classes for two years and practiced on friends and family for twelve years before beginning her full time practice as a psychic, healer, ghostbuster and teacher in 1979.In 1981, Echo began teaching classes on psychic development and spiritual healing. She has appeared on numerous national television shows including Sally Jesse Raphael, Sightings, Beyond with James Van Praagh, NBC's The Other Side, Un-explained Mysteries, NBC's Today Show, A&E, and Encounters. Paranormal Borderline did a feature story on her family, calling them the "world's most psychic family". She has also been a guest on numerous radio shows throughout the country including Coast to Coast.Echo hosted her own cable TV show called New Age Perspectives for two years. She had her own radio show on FM107 in Minneapolis for 3 years called Intuitive Living, and Paramount Pictures solicited her services for the promotion of the movie Ghost.From 2003 to the present Echo has been the director of The Center for Intuitive Living where she teaches numerous classes on spiritual development, living by intuition, ghost busting, psychic development, and laying on hands healing classes. In 2010 she began doing online psychic development and intuition classes. She is a field representative for the Edgar Cayce A.R.E. and had a bi-monthly podcast with Bobby Sullivan called Intuitive Living for 10 years. Currently, she has a TV show on BoldBraveTV every Tuesday night called Enough is Enough.

As a practicing architect (now retired) William began painting with watercolor in the 1990's as a medium for expressing architectural concepts and designs. He was influenced early on by the works of John Singer Sargent and Trevor Chamberlain for their ability to capture the essence of architectural subjects with economic and expressive brushstrokes and washes. He soon began painting not just the man made world of architecture, but the natural world as well. In particular, the rocky coastlines of Maine and his native Minnesota's North Shore became, and continue to be, frequent subject matter for him. "The elemental meeting of water, rock, and air along these coastlines is endlessly fascinating to me." he says. William believes his most successful paintings are those that capture the spirit, atmosphere, and sense of place of his subjects. He wants the viewer to see not just a captured moment in time, but to also be a part of a bigger narrative, sensing things like the power and restlessness of waves, the chill and beauty of wind blown snow, or the shifting, diaphanous layers of sky and atmosphere.An avid sketcher, William is also a member of Urban Sketchers - Twin Cities.