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   %DIALOGUE CONVERSE LISTEN INTEGRITY BALANCE LOVE 930311

     Salvation is not a destination or condition which can
be reached by some appropriate means.

     Salvation is not an achievement.

     Salvation   is   not  dependent  upon  any  kind   of
conformity or non-conformity.

     Salvation is  not  a product which can  be  marketed,
sold, bought, or paid for through the exchange of any kind
of valuables.

     Salvation is not a status which can be conferred upon
us  by any person or group---independent of  our decisions
and actions.

     Salvation is not something which we get when we  have
met some set of prerequisites to salvation.

     Salvation is  not a condition of an  individual as an
individual;   but  pertains  rather  to  the  quality   of
relationships   among   healthy  members  of   a   healthy
community.

     Salvation   relates  to  the  personal  and  communal
integrity of members of a community of people who are free
to know  each  other  openly  and honestly within intimate
relationships where  vulnerability and true  security  are
intimately related to each other,  going hand in hand with
each other.

     Salvation is  known through mutual gifts of  security
freely given and freely received apart from preconditions,
expectations, and requirements.

     People  who  know and enjoy salvation  freely  accept
each  other and  others  into  open  and  honest  dialogue
without   respect  for  preconditions,   expectations   or
requirements.

     The way of salvation is not the way to salvation as a
destination which can be reached, achieved, earned, owned,
controlled, or possessed.

     The  way  of  salvation  is  an  integrative  way  of
personal  and communal life;  not a condition of being  an
individual person.

     People who  know and enjoy the way of  salvation  are
truly humble.   They do not regard themselves as being: in
charge,  in  control,  arbitrators of ultimate  values  or
ideals,  qualified  to  pass judgements and/or  to condemn
anybody, perfected, superior, or better than others.

     Salvation is not a superior status or condition which
makes  some people better in any way than other people who
lack the superior status.

     Often  we cannot enjoy salvation which is present  to
us because we refuse to accept salvation on its own terms;
seeking  instead  to get it on our own  terms.    When  we
accept  salvation on its own terms we know God as well  as
we can.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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