This is http://www.essayz.com/a9808181.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.} ========================================================== %GOD LOVE LIBERATION FREE FEAR 980818 To accept God's love and be liberated from fear we need to accept God's revelation of the ways in which love and evil are different, in contrast --- even if not in conflict. We have not accepted God's love and liberation from fear --- so long as we have not let go of our compulsive preoccupations with: tension, con-tensions, conflict, and issues of control. God's love is about liberation from compulsive preoccupations with: fear, tension, con-tensions, conflict and issues of control. Such liberation is God's business and the focus of God's Love. God is Love. Love's work is God's Work. =================================== Love motivates and facilitates: reconciliation, open and honest dialogue, forgiveness, conflict resolution, healing, growth, cooperation, team-work, personal integrations, and communal integrations. =================================== When evil dominates human relationships --- people are compulsively preoccupied with: issues-of-control, tension, con-tensions, conflicts, self-righteousness, arrogance, judgments, condemnations, excommunications, exclusivity, rejections, qualifications, pre-requisites, etc. =================================== When evil dominates human relationships --- people and communities are: alienated, judgmental, exclusive, arrogant, disciplinarians, dominators, insecure, defensive, addicted, dishonest, collusive, blind, deaf, hungry, imprisoned, dis-eased, ill-at-ease, ignorant, ill-informed, prejudiced, confused, stuck, stagnant, unchanging, unresponsive. To accept God's love and be liberated from fear we need to accept God's revelation of the ways in which love and evil are different, in contrast --- even if not in conflict. We have not accepted God's love and liberation from fear --- so long as we have not let go of our compulsive preoccupations with: tension, con-tensions, conflict, and issues of control. God's love is about liberation from compulsive preoccupations with: fear, tension, con-tensions, conflict and issues of control. Such liberation is God's business and the focus of God's Love. God is Love. Love's work is God's Work. There are people who feel called to work to overcome evil --- and to overcome evil people. Such people have eaten often of the forbidden fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil --- and presume to know which people are good people --- and which people are evil people. Such presumptuous people are usually exclusive people --- who alienate themselves from those people whom they presume to know to be evil people. Exclusive people are usually insecure, defensive and preoccupied with issues of control. They often engender alienation through their exclusivity, legalisms, judgments, condemnations and arrogance. Because of their alienation they are often uninformed, mis-informed, prejudiced, confused, and out of touch with healthy people --- who are engaged in open and honest dialogue about their own personal experiences and perceptions in regards to what is most important to them. Exclusive people rarely enjoy true security known as the freedom to be safely vulnerable within intimate relationships wherein they are truly free to be true to themselves and each other. They are not engaged in the works of Love. God is Love --- and eternally is at work seeking to promote reconciliation, not exclusivity. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================