True

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I credit my good friends for keeping me in touch with what is true in this life. I’d be so mixed up without them.

My churchy friends hold up the truth of spiritual growth, of faith community, of how we are called to live.

My college & grad school friends ground me in the truth of who I am/was before I married, had kids, and had “the Reverend” in front of my name.

“We live in a time of struggle between truth and lies, between sincerity, which almost no one believes in still, and hypocrisy and intrigue. Let’s not be afraid, brothers and sisters; let’s try to be sincere, to love truth; let’s try to model ourselves on Christ Jesus. It is time for us to have a great sense of selection, of discernment.” - Obispo Oscar Romero, from Through the Year with Oscar Romero, St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005.

So much false content about the self, about others, swirls about us. Let us discern, friends, and keep each other true.