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 | Posted 03-14-2008 at 02:38 PM by Growing (Growings' Daily Readings)
Paraphrased from nacronline.com: Honesty and self awareness
"So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be alert and self-controlled" 1 Thessalonians 5:6
The first step toward honesty is to pay attention. In the words of this text, the choices we face are either to "sleep" or to be "alert and self-controlled".
There are days when we would rather 'sleep'. There are days when the emotional...
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| Posted 03-13-2008 at 07:38 PM by Growing (Growings' Daily Readings)
Paraphrased from nacronline:
Honesty and Self-deceit Few people will be so overt as to say 'I am perfect'. Self-deceit is rarely that obvious. It often comes masked in socially acceptable and socially rewarded forms of behavior.
Perfectionism, for example, is a common expression of self deceit. We try very hard to look good. Sometimes we work so hard to look perfect, that we nearly convince ourselves that it's true. Then, in the moments when we suddenly...
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| Posted 03-12-2008 at 06:41 AM by Growing (Growings' Daily Readings)
Updated 03-13-2008 at 07:42 PM by Growing (to provide some contrast)
Paraphrased from nacronline.com:
Honesty Most of us have learned pretense and self-deceit. Denial. Silence. Isolation. What we need to learn now is self-awareness. And truth-telling. Confession. Community.
Most of us find that our pretense and self-deceit are eventually challenged by a personal failure, or by a loving confrontation, or by enormous emotional pain. When this happens, there is an opportunity for our denial to begin to give way...
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