- anonymous
imagine. someone who understood every single thing about you...about your soul. even the deepest secrets you keep buried somewhere so far down that even you don't have the answers or don't want the answers, or the explanations for them. what if we each had that person, someone who saw us so completely, so fully...but, in seeing us like that, didn't judge us but rather took the time to understand us? how would we feel? complete? safe? less alone? less afraid to truly be who we're meant to be? whole? i don't know. i don't have the answer to that, but i can guess that i would feel all of those things and perhaps some others. i believe we all seek to be understood, that the disappointments we encounter in our most intimate relationships stem from being misunderstood...that we want desperately for just one person to see all of us - all. of. us. - completely imperfect, exposed, broken. yet, when seen by that one person who sees us as a whole; rather than seeing only our faults, our cracks, our ugliness, or even the pieces of ourselves we choose to let the world see...we are beautiful, complete...exactly who we are meant to be.
i love the lyrics to the song "broken and beautiful" by mark schultz...
we all fall short, we all have sinned
but when you let God's grace break in
it's beautiful
come as you are
surrender your heart
broken and beautiful
is it possible to find someone who understands us so completely that we are able to surrender our heart, to trust them with our brokenness in the hopes that they will see us as beautiful? i hope so.
"sometimes people are beautiful.
not in looks.
not in what they say.
just in what they are."
- markus zusak
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