Living in the light
"I've learned so much about myself" used to be a statement that I didn't really get; I thought I already knew myself quite intimately. God has been showing me otherwise in the last few months. I have come to realize that I was rarely truly honest with others on a deep level. I have come to realize that I did not know how to communicate my thoughts or feelings, because I didn't really know them myself. I see how that in some scenarios, while I'd never deliberately lie, there was so much that I didn't even realize I wasn't saying. I remember hearing a counselor ask his counselee, "What's the one thing you decided on the way here that you wouldn't tell me?" I think about that a lot. And I realized that there were quite a few "won't say out loud" things for me. Recently, I reached out to someone who stopped being my friend and I had no idea why. It had gnawed at me for months. I asked for her side of the story, bu...
