"Stretching The Truth A Little..."

Who can possibly attest as a human being, that they never lied, stretched the truth in their lifetime?
It's a yes for everybody. It's because of the sin nature that is in us. However, if you constantly lie to your teeth consciously and with the awareness of lying is wrong. The same thing with fabricating
a story putting your own twist and embellishing it with exaggeration is also wrong.

Not unless you're a storyteller or a creative director, a non-fiction writer,
maybe, you could get away with stretching the truth because it's your job to make your script/writing
full of juicy imaginations. Your readers or moviegoers will be all ears and heart. Oh, don't we feel like we live on a make-believe fairy tale of deception? That's what we want to believe so the hard realities of life don't eat us alive. The things we see, hear, feel, think, taste and smell are no longer
organic to our senses, All of these desensitize our way of life.
I think that the most stretched lie is lying to ourselves. When we don't let ourselves be vulnerable to
other people especially to our loved ones and close friends, that vulnerability deepens. I just read this book called, "The Power of the Other by Dr. Henry Cloud." In this book, "it reminds us that our successes and failures often come through others. Those who have high relational I Qs are always the most successful by surrounding themselves with the right people if we want positive results."
Many of us tell lies for good reasons. You don't want to hurt somebody by telling them the truth but sometimes they can't handle the truth so we lie. And we also lie because they beg us to lie, to cover for them for a season or for years or even that lie remains untold up to the grave. We lie about our age, our positions, our financial plight and we lie about almost anything. It's too much lies around us that we can't think straight. Lies corrupt the tenderness of the heart. It's not truly living when we befriend deception...I know what lying does. Whether a white lie or not, still a lie that is not pleasing to God no matter what reason we have in doing so. We all do.
I can't really elongate this topic we were given to write about. I already actually deviated from
it. My thoughts are just blaring to and fro not knowing how do I go writing about stretching a lie.
It makes me feel like I'm condoning white lies because we all lie about something. The only thing that would make lies become a burden for truth is when you accept that nothing good comes out
of lying. And it is a Biblical commandment to "do not lie." Although we're all guilty of it, we can
go to God and ask him to give us grace not to lie. To ask God to bridle your tongue when you're about to lie is a good prayer. To ask God what to say, when to keep silent and how to say it and give you wisdom is absolutely pleasing to His eyes...