Truth telling equals healing.

Reveal the truth about yourself before someone does it for you.

We have all heard the term "your sins will find you out" and "confession is good for the soul" and "you reap what you sow". All of these are as true as truth can be, yet we find in our present day that these are ignored and thought of as archaic, especially by people who want to present the illusion of themselves and be followed by the folks who want to believe that illusion. This is the problem of illusion leading to delusion, followed by anger and resentment.

Yet these sheep were willingly lead astray because they do not want to know truth, they only want to see the veneer of someone they idolize and wish to be like. Then when all is revealed, the world of these sheep is shattered and they quickly run to find yet another puppet hoping to avoid the truth about them too. These sheep defend the idol and the illusion while refusing to look straight into the eye of the obvious, they are full of fears that hold them in chains!!!

These puppets do not embrace truth, they hide from light and are afraid to confess they're own faults, hoping to appear as if they "have it together". They wholesale deceive multitudes. They hire lawyers, front men and publicists to carry the illusion for them.

What we need to return to is and open, honest and sincere presentation of who they are and who we are as well. To demand that people either be genuine or try to teach them so or have nothing to do with them, bringing them to shame and hopefully to they're senses so they can be transparent. After all, we are all just broken, naked and weak souls in need of a great deal of compassion, grace and mercy towards one another. That is what friends do.

I believe that this should start in the family, teaching our children that being honest means you do not have to keep tract of anything. That confession, humility and transparency about one's own weaknesses will be respected and folks will trust you immensely and they will confide in you what they themselves struggle with in the darkness of they're own soul. We must be able to admit when we have a fault and do it before others make it clear. At least admit one when we are confronted with it right away.

In our public settings we have days for this and days for that, people gathering together for all kinds of events and holidays. It goes on in churches, synagogues, temples, clubs and political parties. Yet I will ask the question "when do we call for a day of public confession"? When do we level the playing field with each other? Where is our courage? Our transparency? What do we fear the most? We have a "National Day of Prayer"...how about a "National Day of Confession"? This would be revolutionary!!!

The Church can go first, then The President, then The Congress, The Senate, The Military, The IRS, The State Governors, The Newspapers, The Banks, The Corporations, The Professional Athletes and on and on and on.....we may need to order pizza. :-)

It needs to happen in the church and on the corner, the synagogue and the street, the temple and the television, the politics and the playing field. It needs to be so entirely honest that it frightens you right out of your illusions, so that you embrace the truth in all things.

Just once I would like to go into a church and have the preacher stand up and announce "today we are not going to follow the bulletin, instead we are going to have a day of confession and I am going to go first, then the elders, then any of you can follow, we are going to do this so that we can be changed and healed together".

"Oh, and by the way, if any of you do not come up here, we know who the liars are"!!!

Being honest in the truth makes one free. However, to just be honest without facing your faults and taking action to correct them is really just a lie of sorts.

I am working on my faults, that is why I wrote this confession for all to see, transparency is wonderful.

So, now that this writer has sounded this alarm, I will go first.

1. I have recovered from addictions. Phil. 4:13
2. I get angry to quick.
3. I procrastinate.
4. I get into road rage sometimes.
   
5. I don't take care of myself like when I was 30.
   
6. I need to be more honest. (WHAT?)
   
7. I get to sarcastic. (but it's needed at times)
   
8. I can't speeeell for beenz.
9. I interrupt people to often. (because of they're logic)
   
10. I love and hate computers :-) (that's why I use Linux / Ubuntu and not Windows)
    

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