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ruwth is writing... #1076397 added September 6, 2024 at 11:47pm
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~ We are only as sick as our secrets ~
"Blog Week Birthday Bastion 2024" 
Prompt 6. Sept 6.
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets. Paul Tournier
Can you share a secret? Small or big, tell us. No? Tell us why not.
Who is Paul Tournier? I don't know and a quick google search didn't help me. It kept giving me the Paul Tournier quote in our prompt for today. It also caused me to think of another quote I know: "We are only as sick as our secrets."
I first heard that statement around 12-step tables. As I walked the walk, I found it to be true. I often say the 12-steps saved my life—because they surely did. I was ableto embrace myself warts and all.
It started when I officially worked the first three steps:
1. I admitted Iwas powerless over food and my life had become unmanageable.
2. I came to believe God could and would restore me to sanity.
3. I made a decision to turn my life and my will over to the care of God as I understood Him.
Then I was at the fourth step and I did my best to take a fearless and thorough moral inventory of myself. It was not an easy task. I cried my way through reams of paper.
With my inventory in hand, I was ready to share the secrets of my failings with God and with another human being.
Prior to working my firsr fifth step, I was certain that if anyone really knew me, they would reject me but, ya know what—they didn't.
As I shared openly and honestly about my failings, I discovered that being real and authentic was the best way to go. I was blessed to have learned that lesson. It serves me well to this day.
Being real and authentic is very high on my list of values and I am glad—relieved and glad...
~ ~ ~ JESUS is LORD! ~ ~ ~
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