Even if...

For Christians, what we say that gets us into trouble ought not to be what is secretly recorded in a conversation or Wikileaked from our emails. What ought to bring us trouble is what we state clearly and forthrightly before God and everybody us. What ought to get a Christian in trouble is not our deception or duplicity or hypocrisy but our truth.

There comes a moment when we all need to speak our truth and let the chips fall where they may. This is the moment when we feel compelled to take what has thus far only been whispered under the cover of darkness and discretion of marriage bed and to speak it on the floor of a congregational meeting or at the in-law dinner table. This is the moment of truth.

How to do it?  I've always liked what that great champion of senior citizen rights, "Gray Panther", Maggie Kuhn said:

"Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes."

Our feeble voices may tremble and quiver, but one little word of unalloyed truth has the power to shudder the whole world.

Ryon Price, 2nd Thoughts
Today's Daily Lesson comes from Luke chapter 11 verses 53 through 54
and chapter 12 verses 1 through 3.