This is http://www.essayz.com/a9405151.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %FALLING IN LOVE GRACE ORIGINAL SIN SEX INTIMATE+940515 %CONFORMITY CONTROL LOVE RESPONSIBILITY 940515 Manipulative people who are playing collusive games of mutual self deception are often confused. They cannot tell the difference between falling from grace, and falling in love through the motivations and guidance of the non-legalistic Holy Spirit. They cannot talk about the difference, because they cannot see the difference. They are blind because they are blinded by their collusive games of mutual self deception. They see perfection as a matter of proper control, rather than a matter of the heart where the laws of love are written on the heart by the Holy Spirit in the Presence of God. They see faithfulness as conformity to external demands and expectations; rather than as unique and honest responses to the internal promptings of God's Love. They see responsibility in terms of conformity, rather than in terms of open and honest responses in healthy relationships of intimate sharing. Manipulative people who are playing collusive games of mutual self deception have a compulsive need to confuse the difference between falling from grace, and falling in love through the motivations and guidance of the non- legalistic Holy Spirit. They have fallen from grace because they refuse to fall in love according to the motivations and guidance of the non-legalistic Holy Spirit which leads people in the ways of truth, love, power and justice---rather than in the collusive ways of addicts and their supportive codependents who are attempting to be in control. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================