Control Your Emotional Drawbridge
Being transparent with another human being entails a risk of substantial proportion. Sharing our story with another person automatically involves some degree of emotional peril. I think such a reality is one of the reasons that Henri Nouwen urges us to limit the access to our interior life. He compares such access to a drawbridge attached to a medieval castle. He says: It is important for you to control your own drawbridge. There must be times that you keep your…