Readings for this week come from Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Our Many Selves. In it, she lifts away the fear that when we confess our shortcomings and subterfuges, we negate our identity. Yes, we sometimes fall victim to our skills, for others praise us for those capabilities. Instead, O’Connor invites us to release the trappings of success for the deeper understanding of who we are created to be.
We so long for the approval of others that we have pretended to be what we are not….The glimmer we have from time to time of the meaning and significance of confession is in danger of flickering out, if we do not get hold of a deeper understanding of how intricately our darkness is bound up with our light.
– O’Connor, Our Many Selves
