those who know you the most hurt you the deepest

so knowing brings so much to the forefront about a person; what they like, what they are good at, how they live, the kinds of decision they make, the habits they form, and on and on and on. Knowledge leads to endless understanding, observation serves to provide further insight, but what of all that intelligence gathering if the intent is to hurt, to punish, to destroy rather than to love, to build up, to celebrate?

we get hurt by those who know us the most, understand us the deepest, and the cruelty of that act is devastating. We long to be known fully and when we finally are, wounding happens. The wounding is incubated in a petrie dish of despair and control and pain and fear and it invades every cell, every tissue, until a pain so vivid shuts down our hearts or causes us to build walls so high no one will ever hurt us again.

I contend that God alone can meet us at the place of deep wounding, and God alone can lead us out. And God alone will neither leave us nor abandon us, His promise is sure and His character is true.

While we can identify with the hurt inflicted by another, can we equally identify the unquenchable healing that God provides?