Secrets
Secrets sabotage relationships like poison destroys the body. When we keep secrets, we do damage to the relationships with the people we keep these secrets from. Whatever we are hiding becomes less damaging than the fact that we are hiding something at all. The secret ruins the relationship not the thing that is kept secret. I think that’s why Paul said, “Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the…