It's something I have to repeatedly work on. It's amazing how difficult it is to be honest. There can be so much fear of what will happen, what someone will think, what someone will do or how they will react if I tell them the truth.
Will they leave me? Will they judge me? Will they hate me? Will they get others to hate me? Will it hurt them?
The interesting thing is that none of us can predict the future, but when we decide to be dishonest, we are actually assuming that we can.
Think about it.
The reason why you don't tell the truth is because of what you perceive the outcome will be. So, obviously, you think that the result to sharing the truth, to being honest, is a negative one. Something that will hurt you or someone else. And so you try to act like God and control the outcome.
I'm working on it. I'm hoping that God can help me. Because if you could see the inner workings of my mind and how I dance around telling the truth sometimes to avoid pain, well... It's just nuts.
So, I'm giving you the advice that I give myself. Don't lie.
Don't do it (talking to myself - helps to repeat it).
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