Covering Up

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins. Proverbs 10:12

Our culture is obsessed with knowing everything. From celebrity gossip to demanding the release of confidential intel from the military and government, we feel this inexplicable need to know everything about everything...and everyone. And, you know what? Sometime it's just none of our business! Some things we're better off not knowing. Some things, if made common knowledge, create unimaginable problems; problems that never would have existed if we'd just let sleeping dogs lie. This is a principle (like many) that can be applied on any scale, with any relationship. We just need to learn that there are times when the right thing to do is to let it go. That there is a time for full disclosure, but more times for partial disclosure. We don't need to know everyone's past or failures or faults; and we certainly don't need to divulge everyone's past, failures, and faults. We are called to love, love demands forgiveness, and forgiveness requires overlooking some things. I guess the question we have to ask ourselves is, am I stirring things up, or letting them be?