Excellent, Eldad! Thanks for posting this.

I particularly liked the paragraph below.

Blessings,
Rainboy

Being a Christian should be about being real - real with God, real with one another. God wants to free us from the slavery of playing games with one another; it's not about being 'nice' in a superficial way, it's about creating and maintaining relationships in which we challenge and build one another up. But too often we settle instead for the unreal; our pride encourages us not to reveal how hard we are finding things, whilst our fear of the cost of engagement deters us from giving people the space they need. So we settle instead for the 'Fine thank you' answer to the question 'How are you?'