Cindy Williams, the actress best known for her role in “Laverne and Shirley,” has passed away at 75 years old. Though a Hollywood personality, Williams was a faithful Christian who was not afraid to speak about her faith.
During a Psychology Today interview she did when her book came out, for example, Williams said:
“Well, I was just born with it.”
“He was always present. So if it was imbued in my spirit; I mean, it gets really heady.”
“I don’t know how I can talk about this, but God was imbued in me from the time of my birth; and me in Him. And I just had this sense of always being all right, even though the situation might be dire.”
Continuing, she then also said “Where that came from, I don’t know, but it just enhanced my knowledge of a power that was unconditionally good, and there for me. And so it was in that spirit that I grew up.”
Further, Williams also said “when horrible things would befall me … I still felt that presence, that spirit of unconditional love. I always like to think of Him as a person, as my father in heaven or as my God, but he doesn’t care.”
Also in the interview, she said “That power, that spirit doesn’t care because it’s unconditional. So whatever you want to call it.”
And that was just in the interview for her book, called “Shirley, I Jest.” In that book, she wrote about her childhood and her attachment to her faith during it, saying, for example, that “if it was Sunday, I was in church” and that she “even won a Bible for perfect attendance at a tent revival.”
Explaining why she spent so much time at church, she said that it helped her stay “safe” from her father’s alcoholism, saying “I learned all of my Bible stories. I loved all of the powerful images and escaped into them. Jesus and Moses and the great people of the Bible … For that hour in Sunday school, I was safe.”
The topic of evolution also came up during her psychology today interview. Speaking about that, she said:
“I also believe in the theory of evolution. I also believe in that — that’s a big part of God.”
“It’s very mystical to us, but I’m sure if you talked to God, he’d say, ‘Yeah, that’s how I did it.’ Of course, evolution, you can’t deny that there was evolution. I can’t deny that any more than I can deny that God exists for me.”
“God is there for me. And you can meld it into one. Maybe he meant something.”
By: Will Tanner. Follow me on Twitter @Will_Tanner_1
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