Sunday night in our community we discussed the issue of transparency…how, our culture and society has impressed on us the idea of the masks that we live behind and walls that we build around us. That it is nerly impossible to see who anyone truly is, or what they are truly facing.
This tears at my heart because it is our hiding and lack of trust that isolates us and drives us into corners that we often can not find our way out of…it is like life becomes this giant maze, of walls that we have built around ourselves, and you never know what each dark corner will hold, or what each turn will bring.
The only way to eliminate the internal loneliness and feeling of facing this reality alone is to find people that you can be absolutely transparent with. People who you can show all of yourself too, every wound, every hurt, every issue, every fear…everything. It is only in being transparent that true relationship can exist…otherwise, everyday is Halloween, the mask are just different.
