Wow I cant believe it has been almost like 3 weeks since i last posted here so here are some thoughts and perspectives that deal with what the current slot of time is in concurrance of (eg. valentines) and with the spirit of my semi recent posts. 

We spoke before with regards to affection and eros among other things. I want to bring up another aspect that systemically is needed throughout the whole process of these things to work and fufill relationships. It is also a word that was used several times in a conversation dinner date I had last night and something Jesus said when he was about to say something extremely important. We use the term, “honest” alot in our society but with the way we use it, we can imply a factual truth, validity to our statements and construed what we believe truly “is.” Jesus usede the term “Verily Verily.” as taken from verilyverily.org, “Verily, Verily” is the KJV translation of the phrase used by Jesus to introduce a strong foundational truth.  It literally means “firm” and signifies that what follows is a trustworthy fact that defines reality.” 

When we use the phrase “Honestly” and follow it up with something, we are telling a person that we are defining a fact that defines reality, eg. “Honestly, I want to adopt kids and provide homes.” This statement whether it actually true or not is not the issue, but the defining of a perception to the reciever of the message. I will use the term reciever in describing communications within people, mostly because that is an ingrained habit from being a broadcast communications student.  

A huge thing to understand from the sender point of view, sender referring to the person who made a statement, is that reality was defined to the reciever, even if that reality is untrue. If its an untrue statement, yet you put forth “honesty,” its truly a contradiction in its simplest nature, but also how is that relationship/friendship really growing and maturing when the honesty cant be fully expressed? The point is not to judge or put blame on anyone for doing such things, this can be reasoned by either parties or either party can be blamed, however you want to look at it. To lightly digress, the “blame”, if you want to call it that, can truly be on the original sender for not trusting the reciever to understand reality therfore the sender chooses to protect in a way the reciever from percieved hurt. The originally intended reciever however can also portray an attitude themselves that may not be worthy of trust or invoke trust with others. I myself have committed the “contradiction of honesty” as defined as an act of protection and also against people who dont invoke trust within their attitudes. 

My intent of this short piece is to have you look in retrospect to conversations and interactions with others and how they may have either been misinterpreted or have been impacted by the defining of reality by statements. To have someone look at the power of the words we use on a daily basis and realize and understand that we use words without thinking fully about their meaning sometimes. Jesus intended messages to be remembered and reality to be defined in the purest sense especially when He said in Mark 3:28 ”Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men” or as the NIV puts it, “I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them.” or to paraphrase it, Honestly all the sins and and blasphemies of men will be forgiven.