Honesty
Are you ever afraid to be honest? To be totally upfront with others, with yourself, with God…
I typically see myself as a very transparent person, pretty willing to tell anybody everything… but I guess I see the Eve coming out in me… when I see others walking through the garden who seem to be ‘right’.. to have it all together, and it is much easier to hide in the fig leaves than to come before them with my nakedness.
June 19th, 2006 at 4:33 pm
True.
Not to endorse your “Eve-ness” but I’ve noticed that some people aren’t safe to be naked in front of. So I’ve come to evaluate my “honesty” not by whether I’m willing to be naked in front of everyone (I’m not) but rather whether I’m wiiling to be naked in front of anyone.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:19 pm
very helpful insight and reminder Dean.
sometimes it is hard to decide who to bare yourself to… and I think it’s mostly just my fault, because if people that love me and have seen me ‘naked’ before and have not hurt me, then I am being irrational in hiding myself from them again… or at least that’s what it feels like.
I am just so thankful for Jesus.
June 19th, 2006 at 5:24 pm
yes, that is the irrational side of us. but in the end it’s better to risk nakedness in front of those who’ve proven themselves faithful friends than not to expose ourselves at all.
you go girl.