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     %PRAYER GOD'S PRESENCE INTEGRATIVE EXAMINATION 881018

     In prayer we bring into God's Presence the  multitude
of  aspects  of our lives for integrative examination  and
reconsideration in meditation.

     In  his Presence we seek both personal  and  communal
integrity with regard to our:  desires,  ideals,   values,
fears,   wants,   needs,   beliefs,   goals,   procedures,
solutions,   actions,   attitudes,  habits of  the  heart,
bodies, sexuality and spirits.

     If  we  come  into God's Presence  with  selfishness,
there  we discover our selfishness and learn to  transcend
our narrow perspective.

     If  we  come  into God's Presence  seeking  power  to
disintegrate  our  enemy,   there  we  discover  that  our
integrity depends upon the integrity of our enemy.

     If  we come into God's Presence seeking to  have  and
control  more than our neighbor does,  there  we  discover
that  our  integrity  depends upon  our  transcending  our
desire to own and control.

     If  we  come  into God's  Presence  seeking  infinite
manipulative knowledge, power, and understanding; there we
discover  that  they  are not the means to  what  we  most
deeply need.

     In  God's Presence we may seek what we think we  want
and  need,  and discover that our conceptions of our needs
are misguided by confused conceptions of our own natures.

     In  God's Presence we do not always receive  what  we
seek: we may learn to seek what we, in our depths, need.

     In  God's  Presence  we may learn to  seek  both  our
personal and communal integrity in conversations about our
desires,  ideals,  values, fears, wants,  needs,  beliefs,
goals,  procedures, solutions, actions, attitudes,  habits
of   the  heart,   bodies,   sexuality  and  spirits.   In
conversations  in  God's  Presence we  may  be  converted,
turned  around,  and see clearly our patterns of  behavior
which   involve  addictive,   codependent  and   collusive
elements.

     When we see ourselves clearly in the Presence of  God
we  become  free to be our true selves,  and free to  stop
trying to be untrue to the ground of our unique being.  We
become  free to be who we are with integrity which reaches
out  into  our community and promotes  communal  integrity
which  can  be  enjoyed  by all;  in  the  freedom  to  be
vulnerable,   in security with serenity,  in freedom  from
defenses.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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