The Fear that comes with Silence

Fear, the wrestling not just with right and wrong but with the consequences of doing what is right or maybe speaking the truth.
 
As I've hinted its been a roller coaster couple of years. Enjoying the blessing of finding something that I am good at and growing in it and growing in God.  Until it went wrong  I lost my role at church, a job most people said I did well, and that lovely saying crept in ... don't speak, don't be open, .... that will only will make it worse 

What does it mean when we can't tell the truth. It either means we did something that we are ashamed of, or we are being asked to cover up what someone else doesn't want known. But it eats away at us, at our relationships, at our transparency.


Nothing has been right since the silence came ... literally

 I am poured out like water,

 and all my bones are out of joint;

 my heart is like wax;

 it is melted within my breast;

 my strength is dried up like a potsherd,

 and my tongue sticks to my jaws;

 you lay me in the dust of death.

 (Psalm 22:14-15 ESV)

We need to live, speak and love in the light, to be transparent, to be open... without it there is death to healthy relationships... both in terms of our relationships to each other, and to God.

May you and I be blessed to walk in the light today.