Honestly Honest

I've been confronted with a lot of honestly lately and it's beginning to get the best of me. In a good way. I've decided that we're not honest enough with each other in general and have therefore been fooling ourselves and each other if we think we're doing anybody any favors. There's quite a lot of truth that can come from being honest, if I may sound so profound, and I've always said to take truth wherever you can find it. My mother was honest with me the other day and I didn't like it. But it was because I knew deep down that there was some truth to what she said. Too often we let honesty take a back seat because we're too afraid of the reality of what may be.

So, if I can be completely honest, I want to start living with more to say. At work - I want to say, with gentleness, when I think one of my coworkers may need guidance. Not out of condemnation or without discernment. But constructively to build them up and encourage them. I've noticed that even the things that I've been quietly honest with, have changed the atmosphere of conversation around the workplace. And that's encouraging to me! At small group - I want to be very honest with my girls, and I want them to crave that honestly, that it may spur them on toward more God-honoring decisions and conscious thought. In my marriage - It's so easy to not talk about the difficult questions because we feel like we'll get around to it eventually. But I want to be spiritually challenged to pray with all sincerity for my husband and our life together.  Most of all, I don't want a lack of honestly to cause unnecessary confusion or feelings of carelessness. So, can you handle the truth?