Have you ever noticed how we humans like to get things to go our way? Any which way we can? We are master manipulators. And we do it almost completely unconsciously... it is so much a part of us. And it involves a lot of things... dishonesty being a big one... We tweak things to put ourselves in a better light. We shift a story just a bit to make others act a certain way. We try to get people to do things the way we think it should be done... and we manipulate them in the bargain...
Because we don't even realize we are doing it... it's not something that we try to alter... We just do it... and often in a split second... It comes so naturally to us... We try to get people to stay in a conversation long after they want to leave. We try to get attention focussed on ourselves, so that we are in the spotlight. We crave attention and we do things to get the attention we so desparately want. We try to get things to go our way so that it always works out the best for us... and to heck with the others.
It is so divisive... It separates us from others... It separates us from ourselves. It separates us from life... Ultimately it separates us from God! Because, let's face it.... we try to manipulate God as well!! "God, if you do this... I will do this"... Manipulation is a tiny step away from blackmail...
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