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  %YEARNING UNIQUE INDIVIDUALS REVERED CHILDREN GOD+030118
 %ACCEPT OPEN HONEST DIALOGUE NEED APOLOGY PRETENSE+030118
 %PRETEXT UTILITY ABUSE CONFORMITY PRECONDITION SIN+030118
 %HEALTHY COMMUNITY SANCTUARY LOVER FRIEND INTIMACY+030118
   %EXPECT DEMAND CONFORMITY FEELING BELIEVE DECIDE+030118
 %IGNORE FACTS IRREVERENT RELATIONSHIPS PRETENTIOUS 030118
                                                          
     We yearn that we as unique individuals               
      we may someday be revered as children of God ---    
       accepted into open and honest dialogue             
        as we really are, without any felt need           
         for apology, pretense, pretext or utility        
          on the part of anybody; i.e., we yearn          
           that conformity not be a precondition          
            for the possibilities of being a part         
             of a healthy community within                
              the sanctuary of Love.                      
                                                          
     We  can  do no one any good                          
      by expecting or  demanding conformity               
       to  our  ways  of  feeling,   believing,  thinking,
        deciding or acting.  We may not like this fact;   
         but  trying to ignore it,                        
          or pretend  that it is not true ---             
           will do no good, and is likely to do great harm
            by leading us into irreverent relationships.  
                                                          
     What is true, or may appear to be true for one of us,
      may not be true, or may not appear to be true,      
       for another one of us.   In any case,              
        pretense among us will not be helpful---          
         because pretense will undermine/subvert reverence
          among us.   It is as  destructive/disintegrative
           to pretend to be reverent;  as it is to  forget
            or fail to be reverent with each other.  So   
             long as we pretend, forget or fail to be     
              reverent with each  other;   we cannot enjoy
               personal-communal integrity  and  security 
                with each other.                          
                                                          
     It is a tragic mistake to                            
      honor, respect, support or revere                   
       the BEHAVIOR of any leader who fails to revere     
        ALL of God's children as God's children.          
         Such a leader pretends to be God ---             
          while  being a mortal who is deluded            
           by misleading visions of:                      
            omniscience, omnipotence, certainty,          
             infallibility and eternal life.              
                                                          
                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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