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%GOD'S WORD PROPHET SCRIPTURE PRESENCE BURNING BUSH+941226
%PERCEIVE SEE HEAR FEEL TOUCH SENSE EXPERIENCE LOVE+941226
 %LITERAL FUNDAMENTAL TRUTH HONEST DECEPTION SINNER 941226

     What we hear,  see,  feel, touch, sense,  experience,
perceive,   and  believe---when we find ourselves  in  the
presence of God's prophets,  scriptures,  presence,  word,
creations  or burning bushes---depends greatly upon how we
have  come  into  Her Presence;   with  what  assumptions,
convictions, desires, attitudes, beliefs and paradigms.

     God  does not use coercion to force us to hear,  see,
feel,  touch,  sense,  experience,  perceive or believe in
ways which are contrary to our being true to ourselves and
each other.

     God   does  not  violate  our  personal  or  communal
integrity  in efforts to control us and get us to  do  His
Will  in   ways which are contrary to  our  being  true to
ourselves and each other.

     God's   true prophets  and  servants do  not  violate
our personal  or  communal integrity in efforts to control
us and  get  us  to  do  their  will  in    ways which are
contrary to our being true to ourselves and each other.

     People  who  do  violate  our  personal  or  communal
integrity  in efforts to control us and get us to do their
will  in   ways  which are contrary to our being  true  to
ourselves  and  each other---are not God's  prophets  even
though  they  are  Her Children who are in great  need  of
love,  understanding,  and free gifts of the freedom to be
safely vulnerable in being true to us and each other.

     God's words are not coercive words which can be  used
or abused to force us to conform to some approved  pattern
of  being,  perceiving and relating.    Words which are so
used  are not truly God's words,  for He does not give His
words  to  us  to be abused by us in violent ways  in  our
efforts to control each others.

     When we believe that God has given us Her Words to be
used as tools in manipulating each other to conform to our
own differing conceptions of Her Will---we are acting like
collusive  addicts who  are fixated upon alienative issues
of control,  judgment,  self-righteousness,   condemnation
and exclusivity.

     Beware  when people come saying that they  are  doing
God's  will and teaching God's truths;  when their  hearts
are  full  of resentment,  anger,  hate,  hostility,   and
vengeance.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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