What Would Sandy Say

I am in Christchurch with some friends. They call themselves Light Others...(instead of the C word) maybe a bit lame but I will go with it. My friend knows a guy at his work who is a light other but "doesn't know it yet". Now this is a new concept for me but I am going with it. I am entertaining it and to be honest I like it.
What makes us like Jesus anyway? Is being like Jesus and not knowing it make you part of the final count?

Anyway back to Sandy.... Sandy bowls up to you and tells you about his break down. Not because he needs a crutch but because he is real. Maybe he senses your pain, or sees your soul. He doesn't small talk. He deep talks in an unasuming and non judgemental way.
Like Sandy we have decided tonight that we need to cut through the crap and get down to the honest and often, more than we realise HARD truth. The stuff the hurts worse than the pain on the outside.

I think that I have come to the conclusion... as I hope you can in someway follow from the above rambilings that to live in community demands honesty. Honesty that hurts. Not just with each other but first with ourselves.
We are broken people and as the Guru would say... People know if you have made friends with your shadows......