Admitting all of the bad stuff in your life to God and to other people is very liberating. But more over it gets easier to talk about it after the first time.
Talk about yourself and open up more to others. Don’t lock yourself up in a self-contained independence. To be free is to not let your past or your demons control you. Let it all go.
Because Christianity has so little yet too much to do with the American Dream. To wit: “After centuries of shacking up with ‘the American dream,’ churches have perfected a dicey codependence between consumer-driven therapeutic individualism and religious pragmatism. These theological proxies gnaw, termite-like, at our identity as the Body of Christ, eroding our ability to recognize that Jesus’ life of self-giving love directly challenges the American gospel of self-fulfillment and self-actualization” (Kenda Creasy Dean, Almost Christian).
Because I get sad when I consider the evolution ‘Freedom’ has undertaken just in my lifetime – from “allowed to act responsibly” to “if it feels good do it” to “absolutely anything goes and don’t even try to suggest otherwise to us, or we might just take away your freedom.
