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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9202251.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.} ========================================================== %PRAY CONFUSION TROUBLE CLEAR CONFLICT RESOLVE 920225 In times of general confusion and trouble, what shall we do? Pray that God may help us to clarify our ideals and values so that they will not conflict with each other within us and each other, and that we may not conflict with each other in the service of conflicting ideals and values. Pray that we may have the courage to be open and honest with each other in integrative intimate relationships characterized by balance in faith, hope, love, power and justice, mercy and humility in the practice of the presence of God. Pray that we may treat each other in ways which create contexts within which we may be secure in open and honest intimacy. Pray that we may with humility be willing to accept the gift of security when it is offered to us as a free gift with no conditions attached by giver or recipient. Pray that we may have the courage to take the risks entailed in being true to ourselves and to each other. Pray for the insight to balance our convictions so that we may not lose our balance in fanatical positions; and so fall into disintegrative attitudes and behaviors. Pray that in our conviction that we know God's will we will not become alienated from our neighbors in whose presence God seeks to makes Her presence known to us. Pray that God may lead us in ways where our true desires will be fulfilled more fully than we can imagine or achieve through our own efforts and techniques. Pray that God may help us know how to take good care of ourselves so that we may in turn cooperate in helping our less fortunate neighbors to learn how to take good car of themselves in their turn. Pray that we may not fall into the deadly trap of pretending that we have as much knowledge, power, responsibility and authority as only God may have with integrity. Pray that we may let go of our defensive techniques by which we separate ourselves from each other, and make ourselves suspicious of each other. Pray that we may enjoy the confidence we may properly have in God's guidance of us; guidance which transcends our clever systems of defining what we should and should- not think, feel and do. Pray that we may believe that God has the power to make Her will known to us and each other through the presence in us of Her mysterious Holy Spirit within each of us. Pray that we may not sacrifice our personal and communal integrity in the service of idols which do not have the power to fix us, save us, redeem us or otherwise open the doors of heaven to us or for us. Pray that we may not become idolatrous in our worship of our doctrines, writings, rituals, laws, moral/ethical knowledge/codes, taboos, governance, techniques, fixes, technologies, science, possessions, accomplishments, families, schools, interest groups, churches, religions, nations, professions, etc. Pray that we may not fall into the deadly trap of trying to make ourselves and each other to be good, perfect and acceptable according to some conformal standards. Pray that in our efforts to be free of bias through objectivity we may not lose our ability to be reflexive, meditative, prayerful, mysterious, and truly present to ourselves and each other in I-Thou relationships which are responsive and integrative. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================