Being True

I happen to love the word TRUE.  I love it so much that I told Dan if one day we ever have a daughter, I want to name her Truly, and we can call her True.  He says we're going to call her Bo, but whatever.  That's a topic for another time.

Merriam-Webster defines true as "steadfast; loyal; honest; just; ideal; essential; consistent; legitimate; rightful; being that which is the case rather than what is manifest or assumed"

Am I true?  Am I consistently honest, steadfast, loyal, rightful or legit?  Surely not.  I know I have been moreso in the last year and a half of my life than perhaps ever before, but I've certainly not knocked this one out of the park.  President Hinckley told us to "be true."  That sounds like a commandment to me.  Though we've all heard all our lives to be honest, to not tell lies, that honesty is the best policy, tell the truth and nothing but the truth, why then with this knowledge of such a basic way to be is it still so easy to not be true?

I know for me that sometimes the truth hasn't been pretty.  I made some pretty lame decisions for quite awhile and I am not proud of them.  I know that my truth hasn't always been a good truth.  I've tried to hide some of my truth.  I've kept certain truth quiet.  My goodness...we all have!  Nobody wants or needs every tiny little detail of themselves out there to be exploited, known, or shared.  But even the ugly truth must have its day with the Lord.  Though Heavenly Father & Jesus Christ very well know all my truth, and I've dealt with so much of it with them already, there are still little things that I must deal with...with others.  There are a couple of apologies that need to be made.  There is a talk or two that must happen.  I'm not entirely excited about these things.  However, I do know that I must face the truth, and simply live to be true. 

Right now I'm preparing to go to the temple.  Only the pure in heart can go into the house of the Lord.  One cannot be pure in her heart if her heart isn't entirely, utterly, and completely true.  This is my goal, to be a pure in heart, true, faithful daughter of God.  I know I can only be this girl with the help of my Father in Heaven, the Savior, and the Holy Ghost.  With righteous desires and their help, I'll be who I know I can be and who they want me to be.

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