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  %FAITH HOPE LOVE SPEAK RHETORIC PROPHETIC PREDICT+950824
%UNDERSTAND MANIPULATE COERCIVE VIOLENCE MANAGEMENT+950824
%DISCIPLINE LEGAL LAW CONTROL BANISH MYSTERY SACRED+950824
 %SELF CONFIDENCE ARROGANCE PRIDE IMPOSSIBLE BLOCKS+950824
 %SACRIFICE CODEPEND SUPPORT ADDICTION PATIENT KIND+950824
  %JEALOUS IRRITATE RESENTMENT ANGER IMPERFECT KNOW 950824

     God  is love.   God does  not  lead us into  arrogant
and/or  self  confident  predictions  about  our   futures
through:



                    pride

                 revelations,

                manipulations,

               understandings,

              coercive violence,

           disciplined management,

        legalistic laws and controls,

      judgmental assessment of others,

     the banishment of sacred mysteries,

 apparent achievements of impossible tasks,

                codependence,

               self sacrifice,

              or the support of

              addictive patterns

                 of behavior.



     God is patient and kind, not jealous or boastful.

     God is not arrogant or rude.

     God does not insist on His own way.

     God is not irritable or resentful.

     God does not rejoice in human mistakes.

     God rejoices in human repentance & reconciliation.

     God rejoices in human conflict resolution.

     God rejoices in human peacemaking.

     God bears with human suffering.

     God believes in fulfilling human possibilities.

     God hopes for human fulfillment of potentials.

     God endures all human limitations.

     God never ends.


     Scientific and religious predictions will end.

     Scholars' and moralists' knowledge will cease.

     Judgementalists will fall silent.

     Our knowledge of who is good and who is evil fails.

     Our predictions will often fail in chaos.

     We cannot in truth see far into the future.

     In wisdom we will acknowledge our imperfections.

     We will eventually give up our childish pretense.

     Real  adults  are true to self and others,   face  to
face.

     Real adults understand through spiritual presence.

     God the creator of all is essentially a lover.

     Aim to be like God the true lover, in God's presence.

     Truly love God, yourself, and all your neighbors.

     With God encourage personal and communal integrity.

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