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%IMPORTANCE WHO ULTIMATELY REJECTS YOU WHY LOVE GOD 901110

If  you  are ultimately concerned about which people  have
rejected or might reject you,  then your life is likely to
disintegrate. An ultimate concern with who has rejected or
might   reject  you  leads  to  disintegrative   conformal
behavior, and to a perpetual sense of insecurity.

The  ultimate fear of personal rejection at every turn  of
events can undermine both personal and communal integrity.
Such  fear  is manipulated by  disintegrating  people  and
communities,  as a means to manipulate people, to get them
to  conform and behave in ways that they have  not  freely
chosen.

Each  of us needs to know in some way,  and to be able  to
point in some way,  to the reality that it is the ultimate
nature  of reality,  that we do not need to be  ultimately
concerned  about which people have rejected us,  or  might
reject us. Such an ultimate concern is disintegrative, not
healthy.   We  need  to understand that such  an  ultimate
concern serves no useful purpose; and we need to know that
truth  so  deeply  that we feel no need to  be  ultimately
concerned  about who has rejected us or may reject us.  We
may point to that reality and truth by saying that God  is
love.   We  may  point  to that  reality  by  saying  that
salvation  is  by faith,  or that there is  a  fundamental
unity  which  characterizes  the  cosmos  and  all  living
creatures in the cosmos.  There are many different ways to
point to the reality,  but it is always the same  reality.
Preoccupations  with which way of pointing is correct  (to
the exclusion of non-parallel ways of pointing)  indicates
an ignorance of the variety of positions from which people
point to the truth.

The  knowledge of the ultimate coherence of the cosmos  is
not  objective  knowledge,  and the  knowledge  cannot  be
proven to be scientifically true.  There are no scientific
procedures  by  which to prove that we do not need  to  be
concerned with who has rejected or might reject us.  There
are  no  scientific procedures by which to still the  fear
that  we might be rejected by someone we admire,  respect,
or  fear.   No  technical ritual will  quiet  an  ultimate
concern   with  conditional  personal  acceptance   and/or
personal  rejection by other creatures.  No technology can
securely lift us out of an ultimate depression  occasioned
a feeling that we are not loved by anybody. And yet, there
are ways in which we can point to that reality with  great
power  which frees us from our fear of personal rejection.
Those  are the ways of Love,  and of Truth incarnate  with
the Power of the Gracious Justice of God incarnate. We may
walk  in  those  ways with the peace  and  security  which
insure our serenity with integrity. Those ways do not fail
us. Many people have testified to these truths through the
ways in which they have lived their lives and the ways  in
which they have died.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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