God values secrecy. How much He values the acts of kindness done in secrecy. If we extend this to our common tasks, surely it will redefine our entire motive. Offerings of secrecy, not performances. What use is the stage? Of course on the end of extreme, we would all be hermits. Is hoLess relational to covert operations? Was Jesus a covert operative? How did his disciples know he left early in the morning to pray? Did they ask? Or did they spy on him? Perhaps not the point.

Fight as if you are right; listen as if you are wrong. 
- Karl Weick