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Close Enough

by Julius King Kwedhi When we get close to other people, indeed very close, whether in a love relationship, friendship or any other relationship of any sort, we get exposed to what the outsiders are oblivious to, their nakedness. Yes, we get exposed to their weaknesses, their fears, insecurities, their weak points and their areas of lack, as much and as well as we get exposed to their strengths. And that is where the responsibility comes in, to cover their nakedness. Exposure to their nakedness presents before us two mighty and great choices; either to cover their nakedness or to mock it and expose (reveal) it further to the outsiders. Remember Noah’s sons? Now we know that they were eight people in the ark along with the animals; four men and four women. But Ham, one of Noah’s sons, saw his father’s nakedness and failed to cover it, when his father was in his drunken stupor. The consequence was a curse upon his son and the descendants. “Noah began to be a man o