The Divine Crash

there is a tradition in my family of eating seafood on Christmas eve.  So every year we get our seafood ready, nothing real exotic or weird, just shrimp, crab cakes, popcorn shrimp, and maybe crab legs.  This year I noticed the package of peel and eat shrimp said deveined. Why do we lie to ourselves about shrimp? The company didn’t take out a vein they took out poop.  Yet, the company can’t say they took out poop because no one wants to think that what they were eating makes poop.

So because people (myself included) does not want to think about poop while we eat shrimp we deceive ourselves and allow the company to deceive us and tell us the shrimp was “deveined.”

Where else then do we deceive ourselves? Do we lie to ourselves and tell us that our addiction won’t hurt us?  That our illness isn’t really there?  We don’t need any help?  We can do it on our own?  We lie to ourselves so that we don’t have to think about what is really going on and what we are really doing.

I wonder if on some level I enjoy we enjoy lying to ourselves and hiding the truth because it means we do not have to change and do not have to deal with the truth that might hurt us, or might just set us free to do something amazing for the God who loves us enough to die for us.

If we admitted the truth would we do something different? What if we admitted to ourselves that we weren’t eating a vein? That the shrimp had poop in it? That we really do need help? What if we took that truth and allowed it to be revealed to us? Would that make us freer and happier? It might hurt to start but maybe we would live better, easier, and freer because we no longer have to hide things from others and from ourselves.

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