It is indeed strange Lord that I kept secrets from You. You who knows my innermost heart.
Some secrets were kept in the guise of not offending or hurting family and friends. However it is the nature of sin to expose secrets at an opportune time. Even if I were dead, the surfacing of them would not embarrass or hurt any less. ‘The truth will set you free’ seemed more a cliché or tool for people to spill it out. But it is indeed a truth of truths. For the secrets we speak of today are sinful burdensome ones. They bind, they suffocate even paralyse. I deprived myself of the Graces needed for healing and liberation.
Only when I gave You the truth of my heart with a contrite Spirit, was I set free to love and be loved. You transformed me that I gave out such a glow that others too wanted to know what I did to achieve it. And all I can ever say is all glory be to the Father and son and the Holy Spirit.
Lord Jesus, let me be for now and always a beacon of Your Love. Amen
GOSPEL
Luke 8:16–18
Jesus said to the crowd:
“No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel or sets it under a bed; rather, he places it on a lampstand so that those who enter may see the light. For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible, and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light. Take care, then, how you hear. To anyone who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he seems to have will be taken away.”
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