Honor your father and mother (which is the first commandment with a promise)Earlier this year, I read a book that brought up the difference that can appear between honor and honesty. Many people, including myself can choose to be dishonest, or less-than-honest by omission, in order to maintain the appearance of honor. We fear that if we were truly honest, it would hurt or dishonor them.
The book makes the argument that for this division to appear, there had to have been some event in the past where you decided it was better to lie and let them maintain their belief that everything was okay, when it was not. I don't know exactly when that happened for me, but I can see that it did. Given that I'm going to be seeing my parents in a couple days, I've been wrestling with how much honesty to give them, and I don't have a good answer yet.
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