No one has wounded me more than the people who are closest to me. And sometimes my imperfect people speak harm and not correction. Sometimes they don’t understand or empathize. Sometimes they use my sin against me. Sometimes they gossip about what I have shared. Sometimes they leave me in judgment. Sometimes they reject me because I was honest. Sometimes they shut me out for good.
Right. So why would you continue to set yourself up for that again and again? Why would you invite people who may have less self-awareness than you do, let alone a decent ability to constructively criticize beneficially; why would you hand them the gun again and again?
