Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

by Donald Miller

Who else do you marry but the person who pulls you off the stage?

Shame, he said, caused me to hide. “And that,” he said, “is a problem. Because the more we hide, the harder it is to be known. And we have to be known to connect.”

We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.