Earlier today I had a Video SKYPE conversation with one of my good friends. He asked me as he regularly does, “Chris, how are you?” I responded as I regularly do by saying, “I am doing really well.” He didn’t accept my response this time. He said, “You are so full of crap! When are you going to give me the unedited version of how you are doing?”

After 30 minutes or so of catching up, he sent me away to read a section of a book called, Telling Secrets by Frederick Buechner. Here is a bit of it…

“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling and very important to tell. They are telling in the sense that they tell what is perhaps the central paradox of our condition — that what we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often just what we also fear more than anything else.

It is important to tell at least from time to time the secret of who we truly and fully are even if we tell it only to ourselves — because otherwise we run the risk of losing track of who we truly and fully are and little by little come to accept instead the highly edited version which we put forth in hope that the world will find it more acceptable than the real things.”

Perhaps you will be as challenged by these words from Buechner as much as I was. Today, tell a friend who you really are. It feels good. I promise. I just phoned my friend back and told him a few of my secrets. At the least, tell yourself so not to accept the “highly edited” version.

Blessings friends!