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%IT IS THOU LORD ALONE WHO MAKES US DWELL IN SAFETY 931205

     "In peace I will both lie down and sleep;

     for thou alone, O Lord, makest me dwell in safety."

                                   Psalms 4, 8

     The  technocrat  seeks to  achieve  security  through
addiction to technical tools, weapons and violence.

     The   technocrat  does  not  acknowledge  that   true
security is the freedom to be safely vulnerable;  a   gift
given  by others  and  accepted on the terms of the givers
who gives true security.

     The   psalmist  pointed  to  the  futility   of   the
technocratic  effort to achieve security by attributing to
God  alone the gift of the freedom to lie down,  sleep and
rise up in safety.

     This truth is good to keep in mind in an insecure age
of defensive manipulations.

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