Friday, January 6, 2012

In Order To Be Truthful


A poem by
Michael Leunig


In order to be truthful


We must do more than speak the truth


We must also hear the truth


We must also receive the truth


We must also act upon truth


The difficult truth


Within us and around us


We must also devote ourselves to truth


Otherwise we are dishonest


And our lives are mistaken


God grant us the strength and courage


To be truthful



Amen

1 comment:

  1. Hi Mary not totally related to your post but just wanted to say thanks for talking about resisting feeling humiliated and being prepared to feel it to break the facade. During the day my daughter came into the bathroom and weighed herself in front of me and I understood my resistance to feeling humiliated in public for being overweight. I must admit that I then weighed myself with noone present but hadn't weighed myself for years. I also realised how I go round the houses to understand something instead of admitting to someone that I don't understand what they've said.

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