So I thank my friend for taking me to an AA meeting with him, admittedly I am a distant friend of Bill but a friend none the less. One of the things that I took from my time in AA meetings was the importance of honesty maybe not even so much with other people but with yourself. It never gets easier to tell the truth. It’s always out there just waiting for you and the harder you run the more you bump into its inevitability. If there is one thing in life that I would say I have learned the importance of it’s, tell the truth and to tell it faster. You can’t avoid it and while it may not set you free it will make you whole. As I read this I am struck by the similarity in wording to St. Augustine’s description of his conversion, It was always there and he could run but he could not hide, but then if God is truth then telling the truth would only bring us closer to God, but that’s food for another
moment of Zen.
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