Spiritual Sanctity.

With time brings much change. Such a simplistic and honest thought, I know. However, with change, we tend to lose important things that we should not lose. Growing up in a community that promotes Christ and being surrounded by Christians on a regular basis, it has been hard to keep all the spiritual disciplines. The one that we have lost sight of that is extremely important is the discipline of confession. Not just confession, but community confession.

As a society, we are taught to think that everything to do with vulnerability is a no go. Vulnerability is weakness and that is something that is not okay in our world. We always have to be on top of things and everything has to look shiny on the outside, even if it is not on the inside. This may be great for the world, but this is not how we are created to be. We are put into community and we were created to have people in our lives. We long for interaction, even if it may not seem like it. This longing for people and for social lives is not by accident, in fact, it all makes sense.

In the Bible, we are told to carry one another's burdens and to encourage one another. We are told that two people are strong together, but even stronger with three. Sure, when we are in trouble, we sometimes call on people, but that is not all this is about. We struggle, we have things that are tearing us up on the inside, things that we would never share with anyone. Things that we are not telling others because we know that it might change the way that they look at us. However, back to community, to carrying one another's burdens...sharing these things is necessary. Getting things off of our chests and being real with people around us is extremely important, not only for accountability, but for sanity. It helps us to really build each other up and to encourage each other in times of trouble. Think about it, confession is such a freeing thing.