If you fail under pressure, your strength is not very great.
     If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small....

Just as damaging as a madman shooting a lethal weapon is someone who lies to a friend and then says, " I was only joking."
    As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not I in sport?

From Proverbs 26

When reading this chapter the other morning, I had to reflect on my life these days, and my job...  Lots of pressure; no room to fail...  MUST be strong!!

The second verse that struck me made me reflect on friendship and love... eighteen years and he would regularly say, " I was just kidding...."
I now know the importance of honesty and truth; openness and closeness; friendship and love...
No need to pretend....