To Be Fully Known

I am a woman with a story. It has some good bits, some sad bits, some tragic bits, and some miraculous bits. To know my story is to know me. Each of us has a story—a history, a tapestry of experiences that helped to shape who we are at this moment. One piece of sage advice passed on to me from my mother (she attained it from my great grandfather) is that "if you really want to know a person, you must find out their story."

Most of us want to share our stories and in essence ourselves, especially with the people we care about. To be fully known, understood and accepted is the deepest desire of every man's and woman's heart. But here's the rub: none of us is capable of completely fulfilling this need for another nor were we created to. That emptiness you feel in your heart from time to time when it seems that your friends, parents, spouse, siblings, whoever, just don't get you—that they simply cannot see all that's in your soul—it's intended to be divinely filled by the One who created you from the foundations of the earth. In Him you can be fully known.

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar. 
You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways. 
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
- Psalm 139:1-4 (NIV)