You tell me
I was browsing through a list of recommended books this evening and came across this quote from "The Spy Who Came in From the Cold." :
"And suddenly, with the terrible clarity of a man too long deceived, Leamas understood the whole ghastly truth."
Now, why would this quote stop me dead in my tracks, and cause me to reach for pen and paper? In the Catholic Identity classes I took years ago (yes, that's right, I participated in those weekend classes for three years! I'm not really as anti-establishment as some may think!) we always were supposed to be on the lookout for phrases or lines that jumped out at us. Those phrases were then used as catalyists for the "Let your experience teach" papers we would write.
You tell me why that phrase should be the subject of a paper for me.
posted by Karen @ 9:43 PM
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Because the truth will set us free. Jesus said,"I am the way the truth and the life."
If we had been told the truth by those who were supposed to be following the way then we would be frre to live our faith.
From the chapter “Nothing but the Truth: An Honest Heart” in the book Just like Jesus by Max Lucado. Max said he had often heard people nervously chuckle after reading Acts 5:11, “I’m glad God doesn’t still strike people dead for lying.” Max then writes, “I’m not so sure he doesn’t. It seems to me that the wages of deceit is still death. Not death of the body, perhaps, but the death of: ( a marriage, a conscience, a career, faith, intimacy, trust, peace, credibility, and self-respect.)” “But perhaps the most tragic death that occurs from deceit is our witness. The court won’t listen to the testimony of a perjured witness. Neither will the world. Do we think our coworkers will believe our words about Christ when they can’t even believe our words about how we handled our expense account? Even more significantly, do we think God will use us as a witness if we won’t tell the truth?” Those are Mr. Lucado’s words, not mine. This wasn’t the easiest chapter for me to read…it includes what we like to call “little” lies like fibbing and flattery, etc. But the last paragraph gives hope to those of us who don’t always tell the whole truth… If we don’t always told the truth, we can start today. “Don’t wait until tomorrow. The ripple of today’s lie is tomorrow’s wave and next year’s flood. Start today. Be just like Jesus. Tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
I think that the idea from Max is dead on. The buzz word for many is 'Unity'. One, no one will really tell me what this desired 'unity' looks like. How can you demand unity from a group if you can't tell them what they have to do to satisfy you? Two, Who is going to bell the proverbial 'cat'? Who is going to bring about this unity that can't even be described? The ones who have perjured themselves for years now? Even any recent valid attempts at unity ,by those is charge, are weak now. Merely because the 'little lies'and deceit we have been subjected to have caused numerous small deaths all around the parish.
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