“Who did this to you,” is easily one of the most common favorite lines amongst the romantic reader girls. I think there’s some profound insight in this. It reaches a need deep in our souls to be seen. We long to be known and loved. For someone to see the pain we have suffered and to be protective of us.

Whether we realize it or not, most of us are walking around with scars left on our heart that we crave being comforted.

We long to be be seen and known, and many of us feel the heaviness of emotional wounds that can easily go unseen. When you carry emotional pain it can be a constant weight. There have been times in my life where my physical pain, because it was more readily seen, earned great sympathy and care, and yet the emotional pain I had experienced at other times caused me far greater pain.

While humans do not always see emotional pain, it doesn’t remain unseen.

The weight of your experiences is not only seen, but held by the one who is capable of taking that weight. Your suffering is not too great for Him. When relationship with God feels distant, our understanding of the goodness of this truth similarly feels distant. It holds little meaning to say some unknown being cares for your pain. But when you experience the depth of relationship with God, suddenly the perspective shift in understanding that the one who has the final say, the one who created the whole world, the one with power over death itself sees and grieves your pain should send chills down your spine. You have the ultimate victor stepping in to not only take on your pain, but vanquish it. He will erase that pain. He will see justice for your suffering and He will not leave you in it alone.

The things that we find our hearts craving can indicate the needs we have. We were made to be seen, we just often forget who it is that really sees us.