Words leave my mouth and I wish I could grab them out of the air and stuff them back down my throat into dark silence. Alternately, words get stuck between my brain and mouth. A endless word loop plays with jumps and pauses like an old scratched record. The brain says yes, the heart says no, or the reverse, and the mouth is just trying to say. Barriers of fear and reluctance can turn my talking attempts into an obstacle course and otherwise fluid speech becomes halting, hesitant, and broken. When the obstacle course is operating there are fears of overstepping, upsetting, appearing stupid - one or all of the above plus other fears. Mentally, I am perched on a seesaw trying to find the fine balance between truth that needs to be told and truth that doesn't.
I do believe we are called to speak truth and that sometimes it will be unpopular and not fun. Speaking out can cost you relationships and in some parts of the world it can cost you your life. Speaking out requires discernment and courage. But, there are circumstances where truth is not ours to tell. Sometimes truth belongs to someone else and they need to be the one to reveal it, to claim it, to shape their future. When we speak our own truths, we are able to breathe again in the life we are given.
The people who love us deserve to be trusted with our truths. If we are courageous enough to share we open the door to receiving more love and support. However, sharing your truth might scare others or drive them away. Your truth might scare the stuffing out of you so just imagine what it might do to someone you love. Being courageous with your truth is risky but the opportunity for rewards are there.
As risky as it might be, sharing your truth will open the door to love and support. It will allow others to walk with you in a more meaningful way through fear. When we refuse to speak our truths, we isolate ourselves and it is a horribly lonely world we create. Make no mistake it is our own creation. We build a fortress around the truth. The fortress is a lonely place. The only things inside it are ourselves and our truth. Fortresses have walls of fierceness which give off a go-away, get-lost, leave-me-alone message. At the time when we most need others to come inside and sit with us and our truths we are busy adding layers to the fortress walls.
Whatever your truth today, please let someone in. Be brave, let the drawbridge down for a little while. Speak your truth to someone you love, trust them to be their very best selves with it. Know some will, some won't but the rewards of letting those in who will are going to far outweigh the pain of those who fail to be their best selves. Take a risk. If We're Honest, mercy's waiting on the other side.
I do believe we are called to speak truth and that sometimes it will be unpopular and not fun. Speaking out can cost you relationships and in some parts of the world it can cost you your life. Speaking out requires discernment and courage. But, there are circumstances where truth is not ours to tell. Sometimes truth belongs to someone else and they need to be the one to reveal it, to claim it, to shape their future. When we speak our own truths, we are able to breathe again in the life we are given.
The people who love us deserve to be trusted with our truths. If we are courageous enough to share we open the door to receiving more love and support. However, sharing your truth might scare others or drive them away. Your truth might scare the stuffing out of you so just imagine what it might do to someone you love. Being courageous with your truth is risky but the opportunity for rewards are there.
As risky as it might be, sharing your truth will open the door to love and support. It will allow others to walk with you in a more meaningful way through fear. When we refuse to speak our truths, we isolate ourselves and it is a horribly lonely world we create. Make no mistake it is our own creation. We build a fortress around the truth. The fortress is a lonely place. The only things inside it are ourselves and our truth. Fortresses have walls of fierceness which give off a go-away, get-lost, leave-me-alone message. At the time when we most need others to come inside and sit with us and our truths we are busy adding layers to the fortress walls.
Whatever your truth today, please let someone in. Be brave, let the drawbridge down for a little while. Speak your truth to someone you love, trust them to be their very best selves with it. Know some will, some won't but the rewards of letting those in who will are going to far outweigh the pain of those who fail to be their best selves. Take a risk. If We're Honest, mercy's waiting on the other side.
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