secrets

Do you have a secret?

I saw a segment on CNN about a blog called "postsecret." People send postcards in the mail to this guy who chooses some, scans and then posts them. Some are disturbing, some make you sad or make you laugh, and others are more like warm thoughts. He’s written books containing these post secrets, and he gives presentations on them too. He engages the audience by challenging them to tell someone their secret “and become who you really are” (or something close to that). He told the audience that if the truth were known, just about everyone has a secret that would break your heart.

He has testimonials from people who say their lives were changed by putting their secret out there. It freed them in a way they never dreamed, and they’re so thankful. "We think we're keeping secrets, but the secrets are actually keeping us. With one courageous decision, you've freed a part of your life." One lady in the audience stood up and said she wanted to reveal her secret to everyone right there. They didn’t show us what she said, but it was compelling to me to think of someone doing that. I’m going to tell these 500 people the dark secret I’ve been carrying around for years. Then again, it'd be easier to tell a stranger, wouldn't it...?

I always think everyone around me is pretty much doing okay. But I suppose there’s a little bit of freak in all of us, that feeling of not fitting in or being alone or misunderstood. I would never have known that there are so many people, I’m talking a quarter-million, who have all these secrets--and those are only the ones who've sent in postcards!

I am so sheltered. Maybe that’s Your protection over me. My heart aches raw for the secrets I have been given—You know how much one lamb can handle. Just think of all those other lambs out there.......