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 %PLAY AUDIENCE COMMUNITY GOD ADDICT CODEPEND DRAMA 890707

     Life is a play,  a drama on a stage.   We play to our
chosen  audience  and  seek  acceptance  from  our  chosen
audience.

     What  kind of life we lead depends upon the  audience
we choose to play to.

     Do we choose to  play  to addicts or codependents who
seek to manipulate us, control us, perfect us?

     Do  we  choose to play to  religious  fundamentalists
and/or fanatics who seek to save us, redeem us, reform us,
and/or transform us from the evil creatures they  perceive
us to be; into something else?

     Do  we choose to play to patriots who cannot  see any
faults  in their nation,  but can see countless faults  in
other nations; and would lead us into a holy war?

     Do we choose to play to scientists who would  save us
from our subjective experiences which cannot be  verified,
measured, manipulated, controlled, and/or predicted?

     Do we choose to play to legalists who would  regulate
our  lives  with laws,  rules,  traditions,   proprieties,
regulations?

     It  makes  a significant difference what audience  we
choose to play to.

     All the while our creator God is in the audience.

     It makes a difference whether or not we cast God into
a  role like that of the other members of the audience  we
have  chosen;   or  we  accept  God  on  God's  terms   of
integrative    Love   which   transcends   rejections   of
dichotomous judgments.  In any case God is in our audience
on Her own terms.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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