If You Know, You Know | Obscurity âWe automatically think that going to a lonely desolate place will be draining and must mean weakness. What if this place is actually marinating and massaging and branding who you really are in a deeper part of your life? What if my predisposition is to not share all of my life or struggles online. We want to share because itâs quick and gives us the feedback we want - itâs cheap consolation. But itâs not doing the hard work of obscurity...where we need to sit in it believing itâs part of the blessing, not the curse. Because thereâs only one way to heal and it canât be found online, at least not in its fullness. Sharing trauma or even good things while weâre in the middle of it short circuits the entire process - it crosses the wires and creates sparks... loud sparks... noise... adoration...things like âOh, Iâm so sorry.â âI love you youâre amazing.â or even hateful statements in some instances. Sparks usually mean a bad connection. What if God wants to speak to us alone? Do we trust He has what it takes? You do need a support system, yes. Close friends and family to go through it with and rally around you and support. Am I more concerned with my own healing specifically...or am I prone to sharing too quickly with the world (the internet) before I have truly processed, dealt with it, prayed about it, gone to trusted therapy, etc. and healed? If thatâs the case, my true place of healing (Jesus) is most definitely drowned out by the world. Heâs the true place of wholeness and restoration. In a painful but true way, we need obscurity.â These are notes I have from listening to this very interesting and helpful book this past week called âTo Hell With The Hustleâ by @jeffersonbethke ...Chapter 6 is about obscurity and how Jesus modeled this for us. When you know whatâs going on in my personal life, itâs because youâre a part of my support system or youâre on a need to know basis. And if you donât know, it has nothing to do with me not being honest or authentic. (at Kingston, Oklahoma) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBZpRehBvJo/?igshid=1aqqklsjhk8i5