Greg,

Thank you for responding. Would you care to elaborate on how [color:red]"being real with and aware of who we are" should be understood in light of the following Biblical passages:
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"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" (Jeremiah 17:9)

"For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man unclean." (Mark 7:21-23)

In Christ,
Paul S