LIES
“The cruelest lies are often told in silence.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson
In treatment I said that I did not “tell” many lies – and although this was not true (hence a lie), it missed the fact that most of my lies were “lies of silence”. It was what I did not say that produced the confusion; the pretended self-confidence that hid the pain and shame; the half-spoken truth that harbored the disease.
Communication is the key to any spiritual relationship and a sick silence creates the ultimate blasphemy. God created you and me to relate. In the interchange of our ideas is the miracle born. A sick, angry and ego-centered silence is our shouted “no” to God.
O Lord of the paradox, let me see how the lie of silence can be used to destroy my world.
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