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%ESCAPE PRESENCE HOLY SACRED GOD PRAY MEDITATE TRUE+941016
%COLLUSIVE ADDICTION CODEPENDENT SUPPORT HONEST JOY 941016

     If   as  scriptures  suggest  we  cannot  escape  the
presence  of  God,  because God is omni-present and  omni-
potent;  what then does  it  mean  to use the phrase "Come
into the presence of God?"   It may reasonably be taken to
mean that we need to give  up  our collusions,  addictions
and  codependent  support of their  alienative  ways---and
start coming into each other's presence as holy and sacred
beings  worthy  of  respect   and  dialogue.   It  is  our
collusions, addictions, fixes,  fixations, technocracy and
our codependent  support of their alienative  ways---which
we  need to  bring and sacrifice on the sacred altar,   so
that  our  lives  may  be altered  by  God,   rather  than
controlled by our preoccupations about being in control.

     Workaholics  are unlikely to be still long enough  to
know  God as the honest power of true Love.    Workaholics
fill all of  their time with frantic business  designed to
keep  God's presence hidden from them.  They keep open and
honest  people at a distance and appropriately  alienated,
and   so  are not distracted from their addictive work  of
saving   themselves   from  themselves  and   from   their
dishonesty which they cannot perceive or deal with.   They
fill  their  holy  days  of rest with  more  duties,   the
fulfillment  of  which  is  supposed  to  save  them  from
damnation---but does not.

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