Our lives are intricately woven into a stiff, durable fabric covering the vulnerability which we all feel.  We hide behind half-truths and bravado.  We live life fearful that someone, somewhere might see who we really are.  We are so afraid of the person in the mirror before the makeup hides the imperfections and all those tell-tell signs of aging.  Yet we wonder why we struggle so with intimacy.

If we cannot be honest with ourselves, how can we be so with others?  Unfortunately, intimacy takes transparency.  Until we throw off the masks and the fabric which we hide beneath, we will not truly know anyone, nor will anyone truly know us.  In marriage--especially--we must be totally truthful.  You must be able to stand before your spouse completely naked, figuratively and literally, and feel no shame.  

What is preventing you from knowing true intimacy?

Genesis 8:25 "The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame."