Stop beating around the bush already!!

Sally here. I skipped like a whole week of the 21 day iPod shuffle challenge. O.o Don't worry though, I've still been praying all the same. And there will be 21 of these posts. :)

Today's Challenge: Come Right Out and Say It by Relient K

I think this is the toughest one I've done yet!! This song is about a girl who keeps quiet and won't tell her boyfriend what's on her mind--which is apparently something that's going to hurt him. One of my favorite songs, because most of the time it seems like people...well, just don't tell me the whole truth. They keep things to themselves and they pretend that they're OK with everything, but I can tell that they're not!

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: Why IS it that humans are just so worried about being accepted by everyone? Maybe because they want to feel important? I don't know. But they'll just endure and let problems just keep rotting and rotting and getting get worse, because that other person might get hurt. (And I get that too.) But this is a centuries-old lesson: What happens if you get a hole in your favorite pair of pants and you just leave it? Well, the hole's going to keep getting bigger and bigger until it's so big that you can't put a patch on it.

It's the same with relationships. If there's a problem, you need to say something to the other person whether it hurts them or not--because if you don't, they either A) won't even know that there's even a problem, or B) they won't know what to fix! The relationship will keep deteriorating until it's beyond repair.

There's an old word that hardly gets used anymore, because it's a quality that everybody ignores. It's "frank". No, that's not the first name of a popular emo guitarist. It means "direct and unreserved in speech; straightforward; sincere." Not ONLY are you telling the truth, but you're "coming right out and saying it." You don't try to HIDE the truth. You don't keep it to yourself.

I know there's a verse in the Bible that talks about this--something like, "If your brother has a problem, talk to him about it." If anyone knows what that verse is, please let me know in the comments, because I hate not knowing where a verse is. But anyway. This isn't just a rule of thumb--it's a rule that God made. Don't let sleeping dogs lie in a relationship. FIX IT, or you'll regret it later.