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 %BEING PRESENCE GOD INTEGRITY CHILD ADDICT COLLUDE 901008

     It  is  a terrifying experience for an  addict  or  a
supportive codependent who is playing games of mutual self
deception to find him/her self in the presence of God,  or
in  the presence of one of God's children  who  powerfully
enjoys personal and communal integrity in God's presence.

     To  be in the presence of God,  or in the presence of
the  Holy Spirit where two or three of God's children  are
gathered  together with the Holy Spirit among them,  is to
be  vulnerable  to the detection of dishonesty.  The  last
thing  which an addict or supportive codependent wants  to
experience   is  to  experience  the  detection  of  their
dishonesty. Thus,  such dis-eased people fear God and fear
the Holy Spirit in the presence of God's powerful children
of  integrity.  They are ill-at-ease because of their fear
of being discovery of their dishonesty and the truth about
their games of mutual self deception.

     God  is  feared because God is the God of  truth  and
integrity.   God  does  not show  respect  for  successful
manipulations which involve doing violence to the truth or
to  the integrity of other people and/or their  community.
God  does not respect dishonest people who try to  impress
Her  with their dishonest self-representations of who  and
what  they  are.   S/he  is not impressed by  the  use  of
dishonesty  as a manipulative tool,  for S/he is One  with
Integrity.

     God  calls  Her children to be honest and to give  up
childish games of manipulative mutual self deception. Such
games  undermine  personal and communal integrity and  God
chooses  not to rescue Her children from the  consequences
of  their  dishonesty.   God's  judgement  rests  in   the
consequences  of  playing games of mutual self  deception,
not   in  artificial  punitive  initiatives  designed   to
discourage forbidden behaviors.

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