Monday, March 2, 2009

Dearest God,

Truth. Truth is almost always better than the alternative.

Learning one's own truth can be excruciatingly painful, but truth is better than living with lies, exaggeration, or a gentle massaging of truth. Truth, Jesus said, can set you free.

I know a person set free. A courageous person. A person who has willingly walked into the center of her own God-awful truth. What she has seen would drop anyone to their knees, pleading for help, comfort and mercy. Yet, she has not only walked into its center, like the eye of a storm, she has tackled each truth as she learned it.

Truth has a voice. Often muffled, threatened and challenged, truth still has the right to be spoken and heard. Truth is the road to freedom, peace of body, mind and spirit. My friend has not only found her truth; she is now speaking it no matter the cost. It's the one thing besides faith that keeps her going.

This may sound so simple. But when truth did not have a voice for decades, where illusion and fantasy and evil ruled every day, life was sucked out. All was lost, even truth itself. And when it did rise up, it was met with cruel violence of the worst kind.

My friend is a gentle soul, kind, loving and caring. She is the only truth bearer in her family. And while she went decades without a voice, now truth is the only voice she carries. And she will carry it to the grave.

I listened to her yesterday say things she could never say before. She is confident, trusting God to be her courage to speak the words of truth. Although sick and weak, she is living in faith because truth has become her mainstay. This truth is creating an environment where she can be herself fully. The past filled with lies, violence and abuse has died; it is finished forever. She now carries the family truth and although it is risky and costly, she is carrying the banner of truth hoping and praying that others will follow.

What an honor it is to witness this kind of truth emerging. Hearing the strength of this truth voice is something to behold. My friend has entered a new realm of living. And I know she has a foot on this earth and the other in heaven where she gains more courage every day to live the truth that can set others free. I pray for her.

Loving God,
truth is
the essence
of life.
Without it,
life is
an illusion,
an imaginary happening,
where nothing
is real.
Nothing to
sink your teeth into.
Nothing to
stand on.
Nothing to
hope in.
Truth is
the foundation
of life.
It is
what causes us
to skip
and sing.
It births hope
and possibility.
It frees,
releases,
opens,
heals.
My God,
thank you
for truth.

Love, Andrea