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So do your colleagues today or continuing on thinking about
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Kirkegaard and the love, especially the connection between love for
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oneself and it now explicitly moving into love for the
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neighbor. So Kim Bayard believes that love cannot possibly actually
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be possessed the minute one tries to possess it.
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In fact, one loses it.
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In a sense, it is in being possessed by love
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that the Christian gains love.
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It isn't being possessed by love and giving love to
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others with a beyond.
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In that, Kirkegaard believes the Christian gains anything or everything.
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Kirkegaard believes that a love a wrist task is to
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help the neighbor stand alone.
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The task is to assist her in becoming her own
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itself, her own truest self, within the context of her
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own unique relationship with God and Kirk regards.
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Understanding the task is to assist her in acquiring a
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posture of radical openness and attentiveness toward God so that
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she might discern an inwardness, the unique name that God
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has given her.
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The Christian is called to assist the other in becoming
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her own unique self.
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There's a way in which this itself poses a problem.
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To the extent that the other perspective perceives the Christians
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help. Then it will seem that she does not actually
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stand on her own, but rather she stands before God
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with the Christian brother sister as a crutch for Kirkegaard.
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It remains essentials that in helping others to become themselves
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that the Christian remains, as Kirkegaard says, hidden behind a
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dash, it is essential that she assists the other in
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such a way that her assistance itself is not perceived.
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The image of midwifery is a powerful one.
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Consider, for example, the birth in a are, for example,
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um, the birthing oneself in the process of birthing ones,
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baby. So how you actually become a new self in
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the process of a baby being born?
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Or consider, for example, raising Children to become competent at
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raising themselves and noting that raising Children in this way
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actually requires growing up oneself.