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Scripture\u2019s task is to tell people, at the risk of their displeasure, the mystery of God and the secrets of their own hearts\u201d\u201dto speak out and make a clean breast. There are many ways to say and write these truths: in oracles, in poems, in novels, in sermons, in satire, in journalism, in drama. Honestly written and courageously presented words reveal reality and expose our selfish attempts to violate beauty, manipulate goodness and dominate people, all the while defying God. Most of us most of the time, whether consciously or not, live this way. Honest writing shows us how badly we are living and how good life is. Enlightenment is not without pain. But the pain, accepted and endured is not a maiming but a purging. \u201cEvery significant utterance is a wound\u201d\u009d but \u201d\u02dcfaithful are the wounds of a friend.\u2019\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
–Eugene Peterson, Run With Horses (Downer’s Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 1983), p.128
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