Manipulation ...

Is a terrible thing. Manipulating people to get love and attention screams that there is something wrong inside of a person. What that person needs is to know that they are loved and accepted for WHO they are not for who they make themselves out to be. There is a longing inside each of us to be loved, accepted and cared for. Some people lack that and so they search it out. They say things that will make others love them, accept them, care for them, even go out of their way for them. It feeds something inside that deeply desires love and craves attention in a personal way. What they really need to know is that they can be loved without the lies, without the mask of who they really are. Somewhere they have been wounded to think that they cannot be loved for who they are ... and they were lied to for that. Each of us IS LOVED for who we are, right where we are ... by God. Sometimes though that love doesn't seem like enough because it is not tangible. So we reach out for someone who will tangibly love us ... however for those playing this game ... it is never enough. The rabbit hole always gets deeper and deeper, until we find our worth in CHRIST.