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Aug 14th, 2008 by Lucille

How many of us wish for a different past? A clean slate? How many of you have not accepted the forgiveness of God because you cannot forgive your self?

Secrets are damaging. The word comes from a French word that means, “to sift apart.” My very favorite quote comes from Henri Nouwen who says, “Intimacy is when we show each other our wounds.” Sharing secrets with safe people draws us together rather than sifting us apart.

James Pennebaker, a psychologist and researcher, wrote a fascinating book about his research, which found that people spend their time thinking about something that is unresolved. We are driven to complete tasks and understand our world, but our secrets keep us from thinking about productive and helpful things.

T. S. Elliot wrote, “If a man has one person, just one in his life, to whom he is willing to confess everything – and that includes, mind you, not only things criminal, not only turpitude, meanness, and cowardice, but also situation that are simply ridiculous, when he has played the fool (and who has not?) – then he loves that person and his love will save him.”

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard: http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

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