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   %RESPOND PERCEIVE EVIL RELATIONS PEOPLE OVERCOME 950310

     It is  more  helpful  to see  clearly and to honestly
describe the evil aspects of our  personal  relationships;
than it is to identify  some people as evil people engaged
in evil non-conformal behaviors.

     Fear,  resentment, alienation, distrust,  dishonesty,
misunderstanding,    ignorance,   tension  and   defensive
manipulations play dominant roles in evil relationships.

     We cannot overcome any  evil  through  any efforts to
control  or  repress evil  or any of the  people  whom  we
identify as evil; for such efforts generate alienation.

     We cannot transcend evil by our efforts to be good or
better than others; for such efforts generate alienation.

     God's  Salvation does not remove us from evil  people
in relationships;  but  does  help  us  to  help heal evil
relationships    with:    love,   charity,    forgiveness,
humility,   honesty,   gentleness,   patience,   kindness,
dialogue,  balance,   justice  and  free gifts of security
which is enjoyed as the freedom to be vulnerable.

     God's  salvation does not remove us from  conflicting
ideals,   values,  visions or people;  but does help us to
integrate them through honest dialogue and cooperation.

     The   fact   that   some  people   are   trapped   in
alienative   relationships   and  live   with   unresolved
conflicts does not make conflict evil.

     God calls us to accept each other as whole persons in
search of honesty and integrity---being true to  ourselves
and each other, whole and healthy as God created us to be.

     God  does  not call us to pass judgment  upon  or  to
condemn other people who differ with us---because God made
them  different  from  how God  made  us;   responsive  to
complementary/integrative ideals,  values and desires with
which we are unfamiliar and which we do not understand.

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