Thanx Jim

Jim gave me a lot to think about; a lot that i will be thinking about for a long time. More than i cold even try to type about.
I now see the fault in my using family secrets as an example of how i feel about keeping secrets. I'm still not sure if i view keeping personal secrets (on the whole) as a good thing, but i can definitely see why family changes things. They are not my secrets to reveal.
I should not have brought up the points of my step-father, mother, and brother. It was just stupid, pompous, immaturity. I honestly just wasn't thinking. I wasn't intending to make my family look bad, but at the same time i wasn't guarding against it. i guess i wasn't really thinking about them at all.
I didn't (in my small-mindedness) think i was saying anything new about my brother. i figured anyone reading this already knew. After all, he and his wife made a public apology to our church and asked their forgiveness; and Mackenzie was born only a few months after they married. As a matter of fact, i admired that they didn't get married immediately as to try and hide the whole thing. i admire a lot about him and his family. I honestly didn't think i was revealing some "secret." But then again, i guess i should have thought more about it.
I should not have brought up the points of my step-father, mother, and brother. It was just stupid, pompous, immaturity. I honestly just wasn't thinking. I wasn't intending to make my family look bad, but at the same time i wasn't guarding against it. i guess i wasn't really thinking about them at all.
What i said about my step-dad was not intended to vilanize him, but to express my feelings. This, however, doesn't make anything excusable at all. In fact it just shows how selfish i was being. What is evident in that post is that i was completely self consumed. I was only thinking of myself when i wrote it. i gave no thought to the feelings of those i wrote about.
In revealing the faults of others i seem to have revealed a sin of my own.
Selfishness.