Emphasis Preaching Journal

It is a marvelous thing to be known -- not "known" in the way a casual acquaintance can greet us on the street, but the deep knowledge of an intimate friend, someone with whom we have shared good times and bad.

That sort of knowledge is rarer than we may think. We have a natural distrust of people who seek to become too intimate with us, too early. We say they "wear their heart on their sleeve," these people who tell us their whole life story in the supermarket line.