In his book “The Soul of Shame,” Curt Thompson discusses what hiding and holding secrets can do to our inner being. “Hiding is the natural response to shame. This is especially true when we experience it in a toxic form, but most of our hiding takes place in the everyday comings and goings of life. We hide from everyone and ourselves in every imaginable way. Furthermore, all the hiding I do from others begins with all the smoke and mirrors I employ within my own mind. There are multiple parts of myself that I don’t want to know. It would be too shaming. For I know the parts of me that I don’t like and that I presume God does either. They include my judging, lying, stealing, gluttonous, hoarding, lusting, adulterous, and arrogant selves just to name a few. But as David Benner points out, quoting John Calvin, we cannot expect to know God fully if we are not willing to know ourselves, for one depends on the other.”