This past week at training camp, one of the topics was entitled “The Discipline of Honesty”. I just wanted to touch on a few points that really hit home with me through this lesson. And they are: (in no particular order)
1. My prayer: “Lord, do anything you want to do in me so that you might do everything you want to do through me.”
2. We must live in a “Alethia Community” (speak the truth in love)
3. Healing is rooted in truth.
4. truth confronts the sin of Hypocrisy.
5. Truth is necessary for true healing
6. True love requires truth.
7. “walk in the light” = embrace truth.
8. Be honest in prayer; reaffirm Christ’s love even though you are “full of crap”
9. Be honest in journaling; it’s safer to be open even when you get hurt than remaining hidden.
10. Be honest with close friends and spiritual directors; choose vulnerability-it gives other people permission to be vulnerable.
11. It’s OK to NOT be OK!
