If you have to call into question your own words, actions, inaction, beliefs, prejudices, preferred narrative, likes, dislikes, opinions or even sanity, DO it, but don't just believe a lie. Don't hang on to it like grim death, no matter WHO told it. Backpedaling, stuttering, and "But, I thought..but he said...but she told me...", is pitiful coming out of the mouths of thinking people. It makes intelligent people appear foolish.
Yeah, the truth can be a mother sometimes, but don't look it in the face and reject it. Just because you like or love the liar--or the liar is engineering or conducting your gravy train-- don't check your brain at the door. Check the facts! Don't join a liar in denial, divisiveness and deceit! Draw the line at being a mindless follower so gullible for gossip, or the destruction of another person, that you lose your sense of justice. Don't injure your own integrity and character. Don't be, in the words of my dear departed Aunt Lillian, "messy". Don't tarnish the faith that others could have in you. It's not worth it.
If you contributed to the health and well-being of a lie by repeating or co-signing it, repent...apologize. Ask yourself why truth was too difficult to swallow, and fix that. People might take their time processing whether you deserve it or not, but God genuinely and completely forgives.
Start there.
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