Technique and Sensitivity

Technique is for orderly progression toward a pre-determined goal.
Sensitivity assesses the situation of the moment and makes a decision based on ultimate purposes.

Technique is a disregarder of persons.
Sensitivity allows for individual differences.

Technique demands submission of one's personhood.
Sensitivity is a response to personhood.

Technique is a means of living temporally.
Sensitivity is the means by which one lives in eternity--the a-temporal moment.

Technique is law.
Sensitivity is life.

Technique says, "My will be done."
Sensitivity moves in response to the will of God.

Technique is a scheme.
Sensitivity is a response.

Technique relegates responsibility to the scheme: It fails or succeeds.
Sensitivity is responsibility--response-ability. The only "failure" is my failure to respond.

Technique has a timetable.
Sensitivity has all the time in the world, for sensitivity is only possible in the now.

Technique orders the chaos into a meaningful system.
Sensitivity finds the meaning in the chaos.

Sometimes, sensitivity is knowing when to use which technique.

(Composed in 1974)