A profound revelation

"We perceive others' words with the same intensity as we would mean it."

That's such a profound statement. It made me think about some situations in my life where I had felt hurt more often than I would prefer to because of the lack of intensity behind certain words that someone special had said. Like what my CG mate rightly said, she's such an intense person and if she said certain things, she meant what she said with that deep intensity and how she felt hurt when the same words uttered by someone special to her did not mean as much. Ashamedly, I also thought of certain things I had said to special people which meant more to them than what I meant. That I regret. Not that I did not mean those words. I meant them from the bottom of my heart. But just not at the same intensity as they would perceive it. Confusing I know. This whole episode just teaches me to exercise wisdom and discernment in the words I choose to use in future.

More than that, I thought about the song we sang to God last night, and thought that though our words may be shallow and sometimes insincere, God our father who loves us with such intensity perceives our words at the same level as s/he would have said them. And S/he won't love us any less. I was just in awe of this revelation last night.
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