See People As God Sees Them

Your heart folds up and drops to the floor. How could they have misunderstood you so completely? “You don’t understand,” you stammer. “I didn’t mean,” you begin. But harsh words do not let you finish. You have been misunderstood, and your antagonist gives you no chance to clarify.

To live in community is to be sometimes misunderstood. These misunderstandings can leave us feeling depleted and hopeless, as if the walls of interpretation between us are higher than our ability to scale them. You’re somehow misjudged as mean when trying to be kind, argumentative when trying to be direct, or perhaps cloying when trying to be caring. You’re then shocked when told you were distant when you were just trying to give space. These mishaps can make our heads spin.

Omniscient narrators in fiction are popular for a reason. They always have insight into characters’ thoughts and feelings…

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