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 %SURRENDER BELIEF CONTROL SELF OTHER LIFE GOD LOVE 930325

     To surrender our belief that we can/may/should be  in
control  of  our own life or the life of  another  or  the
lives of others---is to believe in and acknowledge a power
which transcends us;  a  power to  which some people point
with   the   words  "God",   "Ground  of   Being",    "The
Transcendent",   "Creator",   "Father",   "Son  of   God",
"Messiah",  "Holy Spirit",  etc.    Tragically many people
have been violated in horrible  conflicts over what  words
should/must/can/may  be  used to point to the power  which
transcends us all.

     To  surrender our belief that we can/may/should be in
control of our own life, or the life of another person, or
the  lives of other persons---is to acknowledge  the truth
which we resist acknowledging.    Such acknowledgement  is
an  integrative  surrender  to  The  Truth.    It  is  not
surrender to the powers of evil  which  make much  use of:
deceptions,    dishonesty,   misleading  partial   truths,
collusions, addicts, codependents,  secrecy,  suppression,
repression,  rejection,   excommunication,  disfellowship,
alienation, estrangement, ignorance, etc.

     We  cannot  relax and be healthy persons of integrity
within integrative  communities  so long as we  refuse  to
surrender our belief that we can/may/should be in  control
of  our own life,  or the life of another person,  or  the
lives of other persons.   If we refuse to  surrender  that
belief it is our god, our idol;  and we are idolaters.  We
may practice our idolatry within the fellowship of a major
religious  group  and  therein pervert the  grounds of the
fellowship;   sowing seeds of disintegration therein.   We
may even become leaders within such a religious fellowship
as  idolaters  who  are  highly  respected  for  our  firm
commitment  to what we believe;  and for  our  resolve  to
practice what we believe.  Such idolatry is disintegrative
whether  or  not it is highly respected  and supported  by
many people.  Those who have both the eyes and will to see
can  see the truth when they are confronted by the  truth,
even if it is painful.

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