False peace or real peace.
In the office at work there are lots of calendars, when I started working here many years ago there was no shortage of girly calendars on most walls. That has changed dramatically over the years and there are none at all now, fashions and opinion change and what was once accepted as normal is now unacceptable.
On most desks there are those little block calendars that you tear off daily, they have a statement of fact at the top and a proverbial sentence at the bottom. Most days they are so trite that I think they come from the fortune cookie factory supply of proverbs.
The little line on today’s page would appear to be correct upon first reading but on a second reading I was a little perturbed that this actually what people do believe.
“Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.”
Lying has become such an integral part of every day living that the majority of us wouldn’t think twice about it, we have come to accept and almost expect to be lied to. Things that are not even important are routinely falsified to dress them up into a better appearance.
The one thing that ruined my career in sales was the lies. I found myself saying things in innocence that turned out to be completely false. As soon as my confidence in the company was eroded my sales dwindled away because customers picked up on the doubt in my voice. If a product is sound it should never require falsehood to sell it.
Lying is never ok, there is always another way.
The statement that sparked all of this cannot have a place in my thinking. The two sides of the argument would state that “the truth hurts,” or at the opposite end we have “peace at any price.”
Neither of these are the final stop. A healing that is built upon a lie is not true healing, covering over any wound without opening it up to cleaning only sows problems for later. Have you ever ignored a splinter, how did that work out? Early intervention is always best.
A number of years ago I heard a preacher use an illustration of canned and jarred people. Basically, if we stuff our hurts and pains into a can and seal it up it will be sanitary and secure, we can keep them there forever and they are never healed or dealt with. A tin of fruit can be edible after decades. If we decide that we want the wounds to be healed, we must open the tin and let the the healing begin. The wound may stink for a while but it can slowly heal.
Those who are jar people have a visibility about them, you can see what is inside and open the lid to access it as required, these people are a help to others. The scars that we all have are not shameful or to be hidden away, scars speak of a past wound that has healed. The most real people that you meet are those who have been wounded and healed, but not by believing a lie.
Only the truth can truly heal, because in the truth there is never the thought that it may one day be proven wrong. Yes the truth may wound initially but far better a peace built upon a wound than hope resting upon a lie.
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