I'm Dr. Troy Munson and I've done many a podcast on guilt, but this is yet another very subtle way that is something we probably should see very clearly so that we can recognize it in our own life as well as in others, any time that you can see clearly and do your best to hide nothing from your awareness is a wise move, you'll start seeing the most amazing things around you, and so I'm listening to this particular pastor, and he tells the story of getting a new truck, and his son sees the truck and sees this idea of what the new truck could be. The crone tires, the taking the canopy off and making a look cooler and maybe putting some side skirts on it and some shiny metal and blah, blah, blah. And what he said was interesting, he said, I didn't do any of that. Now, he could have left the statement right there, I decided that I wasn't going to do any of that and just simply dropped it, but what's fascinating is what came after that, he said, I'm practical. So he had this just over Trevor, so slightly pause. And in that pause, it said it all, that he wouldn't have minded doing all of that, in fact, he thought it would be actually probably awesome, but because of guilt or whatever, he told himself... He didn't do any of this. And then he said, I am practical. And in that two-word sentence, I'm a practical, was trying to absolve himself of guilt, and while it was obvious to me, it may have escaped most other people there, not that that's a big deal, but we tend to do it so much, we defend our small positions in little subtle ways, instead of abiding by one of those principles that happen to also be biblical, it's in many spiritual texts of letting your yes be yes and your no be no, and I have done podcasts with that very title, and so this is yet another look, at how covert... How crafty, how insidious guilt can be in our own lives, so for the next few days, I encourage you to practice just simply stating things, and the fun part I find about it is watching the discomfort of some people because they defend themselves so much that when you just simply say something like, I didn't do that. And then you just stop. Yeah. But it didn't do that. Why? Because I didn't. And that is it, would you like me to defend why I didn't do that? And so you can begin to ask better questions of people, and then it just is wild as their mind goes into its like How can you not defend yourself, how can you just be... And it's really easy to just be, I tell them, and then I explain, let your yes be yes and your no be no. I don't need to defend why I do anything, nor do you, and if you think you do, then you've got some internal looking to do... I hope this was incredibly helpful, I hope this is a window into seeing it in so many other ways of your life, it is everywhere. I encourage you to look, if you find many examples, shoot me a line, and show me what you found... I'd love to hear it. It makes me giggle. And so anyways, I hope this was helpful. Until next time. I'm Dr.Troy Munson.