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     %GOD LOVE CHANGE GROW HEALTH INTEGRITY HONESTY 960330

     If  God is Love, we may expect God to promote growth,
health, integrity,  honesty  and  change---for  change  is
inherent in growth, health, integrity,  and  honesty.   If
God is Love, God is not a God who opposes change.   If God
is Love, God  promotes  healthy change through integrative
honesty.

                  Where there is:

    Dishonesty, Love promotes revolutionary honesty.

 Disintegration,  Love promotes integration.

   Dis-ease, Love promotes reconciliation and healing.

   Stagnation, Love promotes resurrection and revival.

   Contentment in the status quo, Love stirs things up.

     Exclusive conformity, Love generates creativity.

     Control, Love engenders liberation and freedom.

   Conflict, Love inspires peacemakers to resolve them.

   Anger, Love through forgiveness helps people let go.

 Revenge, Love breaks the cycle of revenge with kindness.

     Ignorance, Love through honest dialogue informs.

  Confusion, Love sheds light which makes things clear.

   Addiction, Love sets people free from useless fixes.

     Co-dependence, Love promotes true inter-dependence.

     Fear and paralysis, Love casts out fear and heals.

     If  God  is  Love,  then God is not  the  head  of  a
stagnant institution,  church, or organization.  If God is
true   Love  then  it  is  God  who  foments   integrative
revolutions and  change   which  upsets  neat  systems  of
stagnation  and  protections  of the status  quo  for  the
people  who  are preoccupied with issues of ownership  and
control.

     If God is  true  Love,  people  who  are dedicated to
collusive games of mutual self deception have every reason
to   fear   God  who  is  dedicated  to   exposing   their
disintegrative  games, and so expose them as not  meriting
respect,  honor or  support---so  long as they continue to
play their dishonest games.

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