From our earliest days, parents try to teach us to be honest. 'Tell the truth and the truth will set you free.' Why is it then that as we learn, we sometimes spend much too much energy weaving lies and deceptions about ourselves, in the relationships we create wtih other people, and with our God?
Whether we are children or adults, we all need to take time for being honest with ourselves, and with those who are dear to us. Sometimes this means coming clean with the deceptions we may be trying to hide.
The period of Lent which we are currently living is an ideal time to examine the need for each of us to be at peace, to change the parts of our lives that have become entangled or distorted, and for starting anew to live the lives we have always been meant to live. In the Christian tradition, we believe that we must first free ourselves from this 'enslavement' so that we can truly embrace the joy of the resurrection at Easter.
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