The secular worldview says there is only this world. The here-and-now material universe is the only reality. The natural is real, there is no supernatural. The immanent is real, there is no transcendent—no angels and demons, no spirits and souls, no God or devil. If you live within the secular “immanent frame,” as Charles Taylor says, you would be completely cut off from the hope that then came to Joni. “‘I get it!’ I lit up. . . . So her life wasn’t a waste, I reasoned. . . . Someone was watching her in that lonely hospital room—a great many someones.”
