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I am a pastor and a clinical psychotherapist. My life's passion is defining healthiness from a human perspective and paralleling it to the holiness of God, divine perspective. Shifting perspectives creates a paradigm that is alongside of rather than over and against. The parakalein of God and the paradoxes of humanity are redefined. Humanity is all about winning and yet we are losing ground everywhere. Divinity is all about letting go of the desire to win and the fear of loss. The Divine embraces the world with loving care regardless of anything.

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Rolling around, boxing in

Posted by Don Paine

I was presenting a talk about "where do wars, fractions, fights, conflict come from and how to resolve them.  I used a football to illustrate that because it has two points it is unpredictable and can bounce literally in a multiple of directions as impacted by a multiplicity of factors.  In a point counter point world when anyone gets the point it also causes hurt and pain and often cuts into the heart of relating. In a winner take all world everyone wants to be a winner and no one wants to be a loser.

Yet everything that God has made is in a sphere of some kind with no defined point but a rounded flow.  From the oval nature of the universe and the patterns of the orbits, to the planets themselves, to the human body to the face, eyes etc.  So I held up a baseball to symbolize the sphere of God's creative reflection.  Everything God has made that has a point counter point to it is rounded out by the love and grace of the creator.  God does not make boxes but people, religion, social systems etc., do make boxes.  Boxes have corners that hurt and cut, they are hard to get out of, and are used often to box people in as well as box others out.

God created all things to reflect the sphere of the creators love not boxes that constrain and restrain the flow of love.

Let's roll love on all people from the balance and harmony in the sphere of our loving.


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