Open Hearted

Sharing is never an easy thing to do. Truly bearing your heart to others is something that takes courage and often times a certain level of desperation. There are always feelings of regret, inadequacy, weakness, remorse, and embarrassment afterwards. One can’t help but feel a little vulnerable after they have truly opened themselves up to a person. There is always a risk involved with opening up like this. How will the person receive what it is you are exposing to them? How will they react to this new found revelation of you? It is these uncertainties that make sharing that much more difficult.

But honest sharing is important. If we are not honest with each other then we can’t begin to grow together. If we can’t bear ourselves to each other then how close are we really. Is it true camaraderie, or just a facade that we keep up for appearance sake. We need to stop being fictitious people. We need to be true, we need to be authentic.

The Church is dying because we can’t be honest with each other. We slowly drift away from each other making it that much easier for the enemy to pick us off one by one.

Do I know you, or do I know a shell, a false portrait that you put up hoping that I will never know the truth?