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   %LAYING FOUNDATIONS FOR WISE PRUDENT TRANSITIONS 080101
    %TRANSCEND BLOCKAGES TRUE LOVERS CREATIVITY GOD 080101
 %KINGDOM HEAVEN REGIME CHANGES SHAKING FOUNDATIONS 080101
%COURAGE TO BE AUTHENTICALLY PRESENT ACCEPTING LOVE 080101
%UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE JUST AS I AM IMPERFECT IS 080101
%REDEMPTIVE SALVATION FROM MYTH REDEMPTIVE VIOLENCE 080101

There  are circumstances,  occasions,  times,  and  places
where  we  cannot  Immediately-Realize ==   Make-Real  our
Visions-of-Highly-Desirable-New-Realities; e.g., new kinds
of:  Kind,  Open-And-Honest,  Authentic,  Well-Integrated,
Healthy,  and  otherwise  Honorable-Personal-Relationships
--- which By-Existing would Major-Challenges to:

 1.  The Concentrated Powers-That-Be.
 2.  The Concentrations of Wealth by Domineering-People.
 3.  The Prevailing Domination-Systems that are around.
 4.  Collusive-Games-of-Mutual-Self-Deception.
 5.  Profitable Addictions and Codependent-Supporters.
 6.  National/International Military-Industrial-Complexes.
 7.  Unusually-Large-and-Profitable-Corporations.
 8.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Political-Leaders
 9.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Religious-Leaders
10.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Professionals.
11.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Scientists/Engineers.
12.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Health-Insurance-Dealers.
13.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Lawyers.
14.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Mega-Corporations.
15.  Coalitions-of-Self-Serving-Profitable-Corporations.
16.  Profitable: Traditions, Rituals, Habits, Myths, etc.

In  situations suggested above The-Best-We-May-Be-Able-To-
Do   ---  is to Lay-Foundations which will help people  in
the  future to:  Recognize,  Acknowledge,  Describe,   and
Assess   the   Overall-Tragic-Costs-to-Humanity   of   the
Persistence-of-the-Noted-Situations ---  and  to  Identify
the  Kinds-of-new-Kind:  Insights,  visions,  dreams,  and
patterns of understanding --- that will enable, facilitate
and   encourage  Wise-and-Prudent-Transitions  which  will
mitigate most of those tragic costs.  Laying-Integrative-
Foundations for such Gracious-Transitions will be a Major-
Accomplishment  ---  even if the Gracious-Transitions  are
not Now-Accomplished-and-Enjoyed by this generation!

The  above paragraph suggests what may helpfully be called
an Integrative  "Fall-Back-Focus-of-Attention".   In other
similar  circumstances when it is not  Graciously-Possible
to  fulfill  one particular Regular-Focus ---   there  may
another Integrative "Fall-Back-Focus-of-Attention".   Here
the  suggestion  is to attend to  Integrative  "Fall-Back-
Foci-of-Attention"  rather than  to "Fall-Back-Goals"; ---
because   the   latter  are   easily  chosen/affirmed   in
Domineering-Ways  ---  rather  than  in the many Mutually-
Satisfactory-and-Complementary   Gracious-Ways-of-Shalom.
Alternative-Foci   need  to  be  responsive  to  the  same
Integrative-Clusters-of-Virtues ---  as our  Original-Foci
do.     Beware  of  lowering  standards  in  the  face  of
Disappointment-and-Frustration!

     Be-Together in the Many-Gracious ways of Shalom.

                         (c) 2008 by Paul A. Smith in
                      "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                    (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)

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