<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Paula, that's a really good insight. We used to identify individualistic over-emphasis as a contradiction. But perhaps it's really the de-emphasis of community that we need to focus on. </div><div>Randy<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:16 AM, Paula Philbrook <<a href="mailto:paula.philbrook@gmail.com">paula.philbrook@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4">Sufficient unto the day is the contradiction there of. . . . </font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4">I have carried this phrase in my head since Town Meeting days. What is the contradiction? In the Fifth City process we identified the VICTIM IMAGE as the underlying spirit problem or contraction, has that changed in our life times?</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><font face="comic sans ms,sans-serif" size="4"><br></font></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Daughter, Rebekah, writes and is the content editor of <a href="http://Dictionary.com">Dictionary.com</a>. </font>They selected bluster as the word of the year for 2012. (follow this link if you want to read about it- <a href="http://hotword.dictionary.com/bluster/">http://hotword.dictionary.com/bluster/</a>) In the article, she says you cannot solve a problem until you articulate it. Is that right?</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">The culture of drugs, guns, domestic violence, excess consumption, and bullying, all point to a similar underlying contradiction-deep personal isolation coupled with a vacuum or absence of community has produced a mindset of "super" power individuals. <b>The individual is more important than the whole. </b></font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><b><br></b></font></div><div><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif" size="4">The victim image was from the Freedom section of RSI, I keep thinking this contradiction is related to the last section, the CHURCH. There is no WE.</font></div>
<div><br></div><div><font size="4" face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Paula</font></div><div> </div><div><br><font color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow</em>.</font></div>
<div><font size="1" color="#000099" face="'comic sans ms', sans-serif"><em>Melody</em> Beattie</font></div><br>
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