From a negative perspective, the
three dominant Big Stories state that we should not live
lives of intention with acts of Intending. Rather, our "salvation" rests
upon our personal relationship with the Lone
Male God.
We are indeed not only "motherless
children" but we should fear the Other—even
family members (so the Cain and Abel story)—because
Others are only temptations to sin.
We owe nothing to
our Earthly families, rather we are to live lives of blind
obedience, submission to authority, and surrender
to His will.
People who fear the
Other can never Intend
in the Earthfolk manner. They choose to forget Others,
and do so through names which make them invisible, e.g.,
gook or “alien” or Bitch! They
also practice feeling disconnected through
creatively imagining that Endless Warring is how they
should make themselves present to the Other.
Intending practices are ways of
staying connected to and
nourished by the preciousness of the Forever-Family as we
celebrate and are
strengthened by the memory that makes your beloved
and you as beloved
continually present throughout
the day.
Intending is a coupled act
of sustained intimacy.
Continue—Intending to Comfort
