#6: What's the hardest thing you have ever experienced?
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this one. I've been thinking about it ever since I started this 30 things series (or at least trying to think up excuses to skip this particular question). For anyone who has met me, or even knows me at all, you know that I find it extremely hard to open up to people about stuff. But here I go...
The hardest thing I have ever experienced is this: discovering that someone I loved, cared for, or looked up to wasn't who I thought they were at all. To my recollection, this has happened three times in my life. I won't give any information on these people at all because it's not my place.
I think the hardest thing about this discovery was realizing the these three people had been living a lie in front of me the whole time. All of a sudden their walk contradicted their talk. And with one particular person, that was very hard to take.
I believe that's all I feel comfortable sharing about this, but I will end on one note. This summer, at camp, one of the songs that someone sang every week was called "Who You Say You Are". I only heard it once because it was the song sung during the parent's program on Saturday morning, but that one time I heard it, it just hit me like a cold splash of water. It's basically a song about how God is who He says He is. And that's exactly what I needed to hear then, to know that there is someone out there who is genuine. God is God, and He is no hypocrite.
And that truth won't ever change.
