I am sad today because I am experiencing a gulf between me and a person close to me. I believe it is not a mere subjective separation but an actual separation in the spiritual domain. What is worse is that I am the one who created it, and that she is not even aware of the rupture in intimacy, at least not yet. I created it by my sin, and I will tell you about it so that you will not do what I have done.
The cause of the gulf is my sharing with a few people a serious ongoing sin in the life of this woman—so that they would pray for her. But today when I talked to the woman and realized as we spoke amicably that she has no knowledge of what I have shared with others, I felt sick about what I have done. Turns out that when a deception is introduced into any relationship—whether it is a malicious betrayal or (as in this case) an area that one must conceal—there is a loss of reality. There is a loss of true “touching” of the other.
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