Search Me and Know My Heart

📝Reflection

This is a courageous prayer. The poet asks to be searched through and through. Usually we fear self-examination, because facing the crooked ways within, the feelings we hate to admit, hurts. So we keep looking only outward — others' faults are clear while our own stay dark. But growth begins only from looking within. I was long used to blaming others. Yet the only thing I could truly change was myself. To face the crooked ways within honestly — that uncomfortable courage was in fact the fastest road to growth.