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  %REFLEXIVE SCIENCE EDUCATION PERSON CHANGE OBJECT+930226
    %MESSAGE TRANSLATE INCARNATE PROPHET ROLE MODEL 930226

     Messengers  often  carry  messages  from  senders  of
messages  to receivers of  those  messages---without  ever
being aware of the content or import of the messages which
they carry.  Even so they have often fallen victim of  the
wrath  of  powerful people  who  thereby  receive messages
which  displeased them.  It is a risky business to be  the
carrier of bad news to powerful people.

     Sometimes  people  play the  role  of  translator  of
messages which originate in one language and are delivered
in another language.  The responsibility of the translator
is to convert the message as  accurately  as possible from
one  language and cultural context,  into another language
and its associated  cultural context. Such translators are
messengers of a slightly different form, and often provide
simultaneous  translations as at the  deliberations of the
United Nations.  Their ability to know the originators and
receivers, and to help  them understand  each other can be
of critical importance in many instances.

     Messengers  often  carry messages from senders of the
messages  to  receivers of  those  messages---as  personal
representatives who are expected to play an active role in
interpreting  the content and import of the  message. Such
ambassadors  represent  the sender of the message  to  the
receiver   of   the   message,    and   bear   significant
responsibility for providing an accurate interpretation of
the sender's intent,  desires,  hopes,  aspirations,  etc.
Such messengers may on occasion need to speak on behalf of
the sender of  the message,  without complete instructions
as to what is to be said.

     Messengers  often  receive  messages which call  upon
them  as  messengers  to become  the  incarnation  of  the
messages which they are to carry.  By being themselves  in
new ways they become the message;  not just the carrier of
the  message of another person.  Such messengers  are  not
passive  technical  means for carrying a document from one
place  to another,  or of carrying  information  from  one
place  to another.  They are active agents in forming  the
exact  content  and form of the message in their being who
they are with integrity.

     Each of us in our lives play each of the above  roles
to  greater  or lesser extents.  We play roles in  keeping
with our opportunities,  callings,  abilities, courage and
willingness  to take the associated risks within  our  own
particular  contexts.   When  we  fail  to  respond   with
integrity to our opportunities, callings and abilities, we
and  our  communities disintegrate for lack  of  open  and
honest  communications between people who need to send and
receive true messages in  order to enjoy both personal and
communal integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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