unless someone guides me

The Eunuch is so bluntly honest about his need.

" So Philip ran to [the Eunuch] and heard him reading Isaiah

 the prophet and asked, 
'Do you understand what you are reading?' 

And he said, 

'How can I, unless someone guides me?' "

(Acts 8:30-31).

I am so often afraid to be honest with the leaders in my life about my inadequacies. 

There are so many situations in which I should just say, "I don't know," "I've never tried," or "I haven't been keeping up with that." But, I care too much about the impression I leave on others to be bluntly honest about my own need . . .