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Security is a gift enjoyed by those who accept
appropriate faith and hope as foundations for living.
Faith and hope do not pertain to the accomplishment of
certain goals. Faith and hope pertain to the meanings of
life and death within hopeful communities. The destinies
to which faith and hope pertain relate to the quality of
living in open communities, rather than to possessions
given to or earned by faithful or hopeful believers. Faith
and hope relate to the eternal now, rather than to a
distant future. Thus, real security is a present reality,
not a mirage on a distant horizon or an unattainable pot
of gold at the end of an insubstantial rainbow. Real
security, is a gift enjoyed by those who do not selfishly
seek to avoid vulnerability---because they care ultimately
about the welfare of the largest known community.
Ultimately a portion of a community which seeks to achieve
security without ultimately caring about other portions of
the largest community---thereby generates alienation and
undermines genuine community. Thus the search for
security is ultimately self defeating, defeating both the
search and the seekers. This is the case regardless of
the modality of techniques used---be they engineering,
scientific, economic, psychological, cultural, political,
liturgical, theological, or whatever. It is the
manipulative intent and the lack of communal mutuality
which undermines the search, not the modality of the
search. Thus whoever compete in efforts to
discover/create the proper techniques to achieve security,
generate sin and insecurity through their efforts. Neither
they, nor their followers receive the assurances which
sustain those who accept appropriate faith and hope ---
which give meanings to life and death within humane
communities which sustain personal integrity.
Security pertains to integrity. Integrity is not
possible for an isolated individual nor for a community
that is insensitive to, or uncaring about unique whole
persons. Real integrity is both individual and communal,
each complementing the other while being different from
and a judgement upon the other. Neither is exclusive nor
presumptuous---accepting for its own fulfillment from
other what is lacking within self. Thus the whole is
secure.
(c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in
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