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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9410231.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.} ========================================================== %BLOCKAGE DOORS KINGDOM HEAVEN SATISFACTION FULFILL+941023 %FALSE ASSUMPTION ONE ONLY WAY EXCLUSIVE REJECTION+941023 %CRIME GANG LORD ARBITRARY LAWS RULER JUST LAW SIN 941023 There are often blockages at the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven. The blockages at the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven take many forms and come about in many ways. We will do well to treat each form of blockage and how it comes to be present with due regard for its unique characteristics. If we treat different forms of blockage and/or the processes of their formations as if they are alike or identical---such treatment is itself a form of blockage of the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven. Many blockages of the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven take the form of FALSE ASSUMPTIONS; e.g., that there is only ONE DOOR TO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. Many other kinds of assumptions and particular assumptions also form at the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven and act as blockages which keep God's Children out of the Kingdom of Heaven. In ancient mythology there were fearsome creatures with swords, fires and wings which stood guard of the door (gate) to the Kingdom of Heaven. Often the blocking assumption is made that such creatures are doing God's bidding to protect the King's Turf in the manner of a Crime Gang Lord in an inner city ghetto---suggesting that the Kingdom of Heaven of the creator of the cosmos---is like an inner city ghetto, which is ruled over by an addictive man who makes his own laws without regard for the integrity of the residents or of the community as a whole. Jesus re-imaged the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven and of the supreme power and presence in the Kingdom of Heaven---by referring to the kingdom as having many mansions where his Father lived, and to which he was returning to prepare places for disciples who regard him as the Truth, the Way and the Life. He called his disciples to follow him as humble and just servants, willing to welcome and care for children and adults who are poor in political power, financial wealth, and community respect. Many of the blockages of the way to the Kingdom of Heaven take the form of assumptions that most injustice, disparity of power, illness, dis-ease, conflicts, misunderstanding and alienation is unavoidable and/or part of a divine system of punishments for human violations of a divine system of taboos, laws, proscriptions and commandments which require human conformity under threat of punishment. Volunteer enforcers seek to get into the Kingdom of Heaven as refiners and administrators of such a system of laws---or as jail-keepers in the prisons of the Kingdom of Heaven. Such people do not in the name of the God of Love visit the least of their brothers and sisters who are in prison, nor offer cups of water to those who are thirsty, nor offer clothing to those who are tragically without basic human needs. Many of the blockages of the way to the Kingdom of Heaven are essentially dishonest, deceptive, collusive, addictive and/or supportive of dishonesty, deception, collusions and/or addictive individuals or organizations. Such blockages are managed by people who seek to be (or to appear to be) in control, in their own name, or in the name of the Vice Lord of the Kingdom of Heaven. They protect their turf in what they regard as their kingdom through the use of: deception, deceit, dishonesty, confusion, coercion, manipulations, condemnations, excommunications, violence and murder; all the while regarding themselves as better than those whom they deceive, confuse, coerce, manipulate, violate, murder, judge, condemn and excommunicate. Many of the blockages of the way to the Kingdom of Heaven pertain to the acquisition of, manipulation of, or appearances of, power to control or be in control---under the assumption that those who have the power to control or be in control are more worthy of respect than those who do not. Such blockages work to promote conflict, rather than to resolve conflicts; to pass judgments, condemn, and excommunicate---rather than to work for reconciliation through open and honest dialogue. The assumption that security has to do with being invulnerable, blocks the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven; for true security has to do with the freedom to be safely vulnerable in intimate relationships which are open, honest and non-manipulative. Ignorance often blocks the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven, and so also does the promotion of and manipulation of ignorance through secrecy, elitism, exclusivity, judgmentalism and condemnations. Technocrats often block the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven by trying to achieve what cannot be achieved, to solve dilemmas as if they were technical problems, and by dealing with reflexive relationships as if they were objective relationships. Attempts to prevent tragic mistakes often block the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven---for perfectionists' efforts to prevent all tragic mistakes lead many people into tragic violations of people's freedom to be true to themselves and to each other. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================