like, you can see someone from afar, or even live with them day-to-day, see them in passing every so often, and not know what they carry inside. the gravity of who they are.
i mean it's unreal the sheer intricacy of the human soul. all the experiences and passions and dreams (literal and figurative) and words and actions that add up into this galaxy, yet it's all contained within
one
body.
and if you choose to judge that body, that person based on their outside shell, you are missing so much. if you select the one encounter that you shared with them as the definitive point for who they are.. you've got it all turned around. there is a past stretching nearly forever backward that has brought this person to this exact point that they're sharing with you now.
keep that in mind the next time you find a cashier being a little short with you.
but it just.. makes me sad at how much i've missed. people absolutely fascinate me, and i really ought to be less hasty when i jump to conclusions, or point and laugh solely based on what a stranger is wearing, because they are literally an entire world unexplored. people are like books, encyclopedias even- imagine thumbing through every page, getting to know every last intimate detail, memorizing the fractures and the added glue, the scars, the remnants of loss, the sparks of hope, leading up to this exact moment in time.
but that's how God knows us.
He's been there the entire time. each of us is a universe that He breathed life into. you are made for Him. your universe is meant to reflect His glory, His unmatched beauty. let yourself reflect brilliantly, and find your universe overlapping and intertwining with the universes of others as you pursue His presence.
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