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                                 %IN GOD'S PRESENCE 850916

     All that we do, we do in God's presence.   We tend to
forget this, because we tend to regard God as a judgmental
God that expects us to fulfill His expectations of us.  We
tend to feel that in God's presence we must conform to His
will,   and that we will be punished if we do not conform.
We  regard  God as an imperfect but  all  powerful  father
image  and fear His displeasure.   We fear God's  presence
because we do not understand God to be Love,  rather  than
Judgment.

     We  can not accept God as Love because we do not want
to  accept  the  judgment of Love  which  accepts  us  and
affirms us as we are.   We want to perfect ourselves first
and then present ourselves as perfected, but not just yet.
Love  passes judgment upon our desire to perfect ourselves
before   letting  ourselves  be  accepted.    Love  passes
judgment upon our immature desire and bids us sacrifice it
that we may come to know Love in the eternal Now, not in a
perfected  future.    It is hard to give up the notion  of
self-perfection and accept ourselves as accepted before we
perfect ourselves.   We can not accept that we will  never
merit  acceptance,  and so reject unconditional acceptance
which would free us to be genuinely ourselves.   We prefer
to  try to conform ourselves perfectly to some incongruous
conception of what we should be.

                                                                                                                               
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