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Shaun what does this song mean to you?
Other posters...same question...what does this song mean to you?

I simply have to say it is a perfect picture of me. I love the song and the first time I heard it, it spoke directly to my heart.
I am doing my very best at trying “to be honest.”

I’ll post my answer eventually.  I’m curious for now what it means to everyone else.  Thanks for starting this thread.

I rewrote my story without tragedies
Left out the lines that reveal I am weak
Erased every reason for you to save me
To be honest

My soul is trembling
Knowing they’re listening
But all that I need to be
Is all that you’re making me

This part is what gets me most.  Every time I plan to speak in front of my youth group, I have a choice between writing something honest or something polished and neat.  I feel much more comfortable with the polished stuff, cuz people are more likely to cheer, but I wonder what God could do through me if I were just honest?  He seems to choose the honest scums over the pretty pure people when He wants someone to use for His will.  I’m a weak, yucky person called to be strong and pure in Christ, but sometimes I forget Christ and just try to be strong and give people the idea that I’ve always been pure. 
So, I like this song cuz it’s a good and humbling reminder, not only to be honest with other people, but to be honest with myself, too.

Being honest is scary. 

p.s.  I also thank you for starting this thread.  It’s a good one.

Being honest brings such freedom.  As I was preaching the other night I just told them....I have wore a mask in front of you guys and you did not even know it.  I told them my struggles, my weaknesses...and after the service I had more people come up to me with good responses...which is not what I wanted...but it really touched people...they were actually crying. When leaders are honest then their people can feel free to be honest and when we are honest then we can get help...then THERE is our freedom.

This song really initiated this in me.

Thanks for starting this thread.  I’m sharing my testimony at my church this weekend and how songs like “Welcome Home” and “Here I Am” have encouraged me.  “To Be Honest” cuts right to the core about wearing masks and storytelling and how we all try to make ourselves look better than we are.  God loves us as we are and He wants us to be ourselves and this song really says what is on my heart. 

“My soul is trembling
Knowing they’re listening
But all that I need to be
Is all that You’re making me”

Words and music by Shaun Groves ©2003