Naked and Unafraid...

Is there such a thing Lord as having the layers off that onion without the onion shying off or without the onion being uncomfortable about what others see. Such a thing as the world seeing you as you truly are; your open self, blind spots, hidden self and that which is yet to be discovered of you without judging you , making scores of you, eliminating you, worse still eluding you. Such a good damn thing as seeing all the uglies, telling you about them in a way that judges not the onion but the sort of way that says 'hey, i know who you truly are; intelligent however proud, funny yet foolish , graceful yet inconsistent with plans, firm yet rude. And i know too that you know that i know and i too have the good and them flaws and we both know that we have areas that need to be worked on but guess what? I love you just the same and let the naked you and the naked me not keep us away from playing this music and dancing to the rythm of living. Let it not stop us from acheiving both our individual and common goals and so help each other along the way. let the nakedness not stop us from loving and laughing the genuine laugh or smiling from within . Let it not keep us behind closed doors and or masked faces. Let it not steal the truth away, what is noble and honest and lovely and praiseworthy because its true of we really are.

Let knowing me and knowing you and knowing us and knowing that we both are aware of our good, bad and ugly journey us on.That we are at a point where we dont keep that truth behind glares of the évil eye'but genuinely éven' talk about it, sing about the transformation that will one day come of it. let our nakedness not keep us away from sanity , from love , true love and respect and integrity. Let us know that we are all from dust and are journeying on still to a path cleaner, a dawn newer, a day clearer, and that even as we journey on incomplete, for we have all fallen short, we will one day stand before Him complete.

let us rid ourselves of the burden of ''putting up a front'', the cost that comes with being double faced because we are so afraid of the world's scores and ratings that so loudly speak. Shed off the layers without worry and hope for love's embrace, hope for love's sweet voice that says its okay, i love you as you are and inspite of your flaws and my flaws we will still walk the extra miles and celebrate life while at it, we will take this dance and listen for the clicking of glass to glass that toasts to life and its lyrics. That says I love you and I will not judge you; and that goes on to say, the spunk in my eye may be bigger than the ''speck'' in yours. That we can work this out, 'work out life's puzzle of humanity living together in harmony; living in this life with our ugly differences and acheiving a common goal, a good goal.

Tell me that I can be naked and unafraid. That I can tell you about how i just messed up without being afraid of you refusing to take my hand again, to still be free and true to me and walk with me to the final mile of living. That the very way i can stand before Christ naked yet loved, loved in a way that makes me want to change, to get better is the very same way that i can stand before you my brother, my sister my friend, knowing that we are all not there yet. That broken we all face the same dare of having fallen from grace and yet now and again, now and forever rise up again...

That life's embrace will be warm and not cruel, that I can trust you my neigbour my friend to take another dance with me , knowing all of me and yet give it your very all....

For we have all fallen short of the glory of God ....yet one day we will stand before Him complete for He is able to present us Holy and blameless before the throne...

...and still we have the remaining debt to love one another ....