Rock Solid

Rock Solid

I can doubt, and I will deny.

Yet, the evidence is right in front of my eyes.

I once believed I had nothing to offer - to lead, to relate, to understand.

Rarely close friends, barely any family.

How does one learn to feel? To relate? To touch? To lead?

"I'm really, really not that strong!"

But God must think I am.

I reach out, and wonder how, or why?

Yet, the answer lies within my heart.

It's been there all along.

I'm not strong. I'm a rock.

There for others who had never doubted at all.

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