This is http://www.essayz.com/a9602271.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PERSONAL NEED INTENTIONAL COMMUNAL ACCEPT AFFIRM 960227 Each person has a deep need for intentional communal acceptance and affirmation of who they are and can become; followed by communal inclusion, nurture and development. Apart from such intentional acceptance, affirmation, inclusion, nurture and development--- personal and communal integrity do not grow and survive. The community which is not intentional in its communal acceptance, affirmation, inclusion, nurture and development of new integrative members of the community-- -is a community which will not grow and survive. Such intentionality is grounded in renewing personal and communal commitments to seek and promote personal and communal integrity. In the absence of the regular renewal of such commitments there is an absence of such intentionality; and so there is an absence of growth and survival. Personal and communal integrity are intentional, not accidental. Thus personal and communal integrity are grounded in intentional patterns of beliefs, values, connections, attitudes, communications and behaviors. Such patterns are the focus of open and honest communications which are essential to personal and communal integrity; and essential to communal planning which promotes the growth of personal and communal integrity. Integrative patterns of healthy growth are inter- related. Disintegrative patterns of unhealthy decay are likewise inter-related. It is helpful to recognize, name, describe and talk about the ways in which they are all inter-related. Then it is possible to take appropriate steps to recognize and intentionally plan for integrative activities; and to recognize and avoid slipping into disintegrative activities. Such appropriate steps need to be taken together and intentionally; they are not likely to be taken separately and accidentally. A healthy community is often together celebrating all that is essential to the communal integrity and the personal integrity of the community and its members. There is clarity within the community and its members of what is worth celebrating, what is worthy of respect, what is worthy of support---and what is not worthy of celebration, respect or support. New members are attracted to the integrative community through the integrity of the members of the community. New members are included within the integrative community through the intentional communal acceptance and affirmation of who they are and can become; followed by communal inclusion, nurture and development. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================