today, i made two new friends. the first is heart-breaking, stomach-wrenching and inconceivable until you watch him work right before your eyes. he's called pain. he enters the inner depths of your heart and soul, and he causes your mind to swirl, your eyes to turn red, your tears to roll down. sometimes he creeps away, but when he appears again, it's as if he never left. because he always comes back stronger, more haunting. pain wracks your body with sobs. he makes young girls cry, and grown men weep. even the elderly are not spared. pain lingers, just when you think it's gone, he runs through your heart with a blade in hand, watching it bleed, bleed, bleed. and it could bleed until theres nothing left. love is the razer that pain uses. and it causes your soul to bleed, bleed, bleed.

the second friend i made today is named trust. he is the evidence of faith, a promise of hope. he is a ray of light, the friend that is always by us, pointing us to Him, if we would just open our eyes to see. he reminds us of Him. he brings us comfort from pain, offers his healing touch to our hearts and souls. closes the deep wounds which pain has made, makes invisible the scars that seared our souls. and in it's place, imprints God's Word in our hearts.

pain never leaves. now and then you feel him tug at the strings of your heart, and you feel it begin to fall. but if you always remember to have trust by your side, he will catch your heart, and put it back in it's place. the right place. the place that was meant, for God.