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%WE BELIEVE HUMAN PERSONS LIMITATIONS TRUE HUMILITY+950111
%GOD CREATOR WORSHIP DISINTEGRATE PERSONAL COMMUNAL+950111
%ESTRANGE EXCOMMUNICATE TRUTH SECURE VULNERABLE SIN+950111
 %DEFENSIVE FREEDOM SAFE ADDICT MANIPULATE COERCIVE+950111
   %JUDGMENT CONDEMN EXCLUSIVE INCLUSIVE CONFORMITY 950111

     Individually no one of us is God the creator.

     Collectively none of us are equal to God the creator.

     No thing,  being or creation,  in the birth of  which
any human has ever played a role, is God the creator.

     When we worship any thing,  being or creation of  any
kind which is not God  the  creator---we disintegrate both
personally and communally.

     We  disintegrate both personally and communally  when
we  are  alienated,  estranged,   or  excommunicated  from
ourselves, others, and/or God the creator.

     We  become integrated both personally and  communally
when we are true to ourselves, others and God the creator.

     We  are  truly secure when we are offered and  accept
Love's  gifts of the true freedom to be safely  vulnerable
in being true to  ourselves,  others and God the  creative
ground of our being our unique selves.

     We are prone to engage in addictive manipulations and
the  codependent support of addictive manipulations---even
though such manipulations are usually dishonest, coercive,
violent, alienative and so  disintegrative  of persons and
communities.

     We  cannot achieve our own salvation as  individuals,
organizations or  institutions through any of our favorite
chosen   assumptions,   beliefs,    convictions,    works,
sacrifices,     doctrines,    rituals,    scriptures    or
technologies.

     We cannot truly see ourselves as God  sees us; and so
we cannot make reliable  integrative  judgments  about our
relative worths, merits or degrees of salvation.

     We   err   when  we  yield  to  the  temptations   of
facilitating any  alienative  judgments,    condemnations,
punishments, or excommunications.

     The   more  highly  and/or exclusively  we  think  of
ourselves,  our  groups, our creations,   or our merits---
the  more  likely  it  is that we  are  disintegrating  as
persons and communities.

     The   more  exclusive  we  are  in  our  assumptions,
beliefs,   convictions,   works,  sacrifices,   doctrines,
rituals,   scriptures, perceptions, languages,   writings,
and  gatherings---the  more  likely  it  is  that  we  are
disintegrating as persons and communities.

     The  more honestly inclusive we seek to be---the more
we become persons and communities of integrity.

     The  more  preoccupied we are  with  conformity---the
more we become involved in dishonesty,  collusive games of
mutual  self  deceptions,  coercion,  violence  and  other
alienative behaviors.

     The  more  alienated  and out of touch  we  are  with
differing  people,   the more conceited  and  arrogant  we
become   with  those  those  who  share  our  beliefs  and
alienation.

     Only  when  we  know and acknowledge our  limits  and
limitations, and  worship only the creative ground of  our
being true to our unique selves and each other---only then
can we be truly  secure  and enjoy  personal  and communal
integrity.
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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