Secrets
Secrets October 16, 1991 A girlfriend of mine owes $2,000 to the bank on a check overdraft, and she hasn’t told her husband—she’s paying it off in secret. If I did that, it would burn a hold in my soul and my husband would smell the cinders a mile away. I’d have a scarlet V (for Visa) lit up like a ferris wheel at night on my breast. A couple of weeks ago, at LDS General Conference, one of the speakers mentioned that we should keep certain thoughts and inspirations that we have secret or Satan would take that information and use it against us if we blab it everywhere. If you’re not LDS, that means that whenever you get a great idea and you blab it all over the place, it never works out. It’s a basic principle of life, even for non-Mormons. There are two kinds of people: those who can keep secrets and those who can’t. There are two kinds of secrets: those you should tell and those you can’t. I’m out for both counts—I can’t and I don’t and I won’t. On the other hand, you could grill my h...