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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9011102.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.} ========================================================== %IMPORTANCE WHO ULTIMATELY REJECTS YOU WHY LOVE GOD 901110 If you are ultimately concerned about which people have rejected or might reject you, then your life is likely to disintegrate. An ultimate concern with who has rejected or might reject you leads to disintegrative conformal behavior, and to a perpetual sense of insecurity. The ultimate fear of personal rejection at every turn of events can undermine both personal and communal integrity. Such fear is manipulated by disintegrating people and communities, as a means to manipulate people, to get them to conform and behave in ways that they have not freely chosen. Each of us needs to know in some way, and to be able to point in some way, to the reality that it is the ultimate nature of reality, that we do not need to be ultimately concerned about which people have rejected us, or might reject us. Such an ultimate concern is disintegrative, not healthy. We need to understand that such an ultimate concern serves no useful purpose; and we need to know that truth so deeply that we feel no need to be ultimately concerned about who has rejected us or may reject us. We may point to that reality and truth by saying that God is love. We may point to that reality by saying that salvation is by faith, or that there is a fundamental unity which characterizes the cosmos and all living creatures in the cosmos. There are many different ways to point to the reality, but it is always the same reality. Preoccupations with which way of pointing is correct (to the exclusion of non-parallel ways of pointing) indicates an ignorance of the variety of positions from which people point to the truth. The knowledge of the ultimate coherence of the cosmos is not objective knowledge, and the knowledge cannot be proven to be scientifically true. There are no scientific procedures by which to prove that we do not need to be concerned with who has rejected or might reject us. There are no scientific procedures by which to still the fear that we might be rejected by someone we admire, respect, or fear. No technical ritual will quiet an ultimate concern with conditional personal acceptance and/or personal rejection by other creatures. No technology can securely lift us out of an ultimate depression occasioned a feeling that we are not loved by anybody. And yet, there are ways in which we can point to that reality with great power which frees us from our fear of personal rejection. Those are the ways of Love, and of Truth incarnate with the Power of the Gracious Justice of God incarnate. We may walk in those ways with the peace and security which insure our serenity with integrity. Those ways do not fail us. Many people have testified to these truths through the ways in which they have lived their lives and the ways in which they have died. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================