Don’t Assume That I Don’t Understand (These 10 Things)

If today you are

Lonely – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Suffering from depression – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

In physical pain – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Angry – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Feeling unforgiven – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Acting Unlovable – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Harboring hate in your heart – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Burying feelings of untoward attraction – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Seeking a way out from the unending chaos that is your life – don’t assume that I don’t understand;

Stressed beyond the breaking point – don’t assume that I don’t understand.

For we have, each of us, been there. We have, each of us, muddled through similar despair.

And not only are we just like the other, we are called to become the other – to open our hearts, to thoroughly understand:

So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the meaning of the Law and the Prophets (Matthew 7:12).

So be still. Listen closely.

And pray that our anxious hearts are quieted from within. For in the end, we are never really alone:

[B]ehold, I am with you always, until the end of the age (Matthew 28:20)

Peace

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