O Lord, all my longing is before you; my sighing is not hidden from you. Psalms 38:9
Two items that are hard to communicate to others are our deep longings (literally “desires”) and our deep disappointments (“sighing’). Sometimes they are hard to articulate because we barely understand them ourselves. We strongly yearn for things and we deeply feel the disappointment when what we hoped for is denied (Prov 13:12). Yes, there are some who are given the skill to extricate the deep purposes of the human heart and bring them to light (Prov 20:5). But there is only one who intimately knows every desire and every disappointment of our life. How good it is to be understood by someone! Sometimes the omniscience of God is a terrifying truth, but in this case it is profoundly comforting. We are never truly alone for He is the God who sees! (Gen 16:13)