she will be back

i have a girl friend whom i grew up with. I always saw her, as a girl of strong virtues growing up into a woman of steel and wisdom. or so i thought. it recently dawn on me that in all these years, i've only seen the best side of her, God forbid, that anyone should see the worst side of her, even me. 

when i saw the brokenness in her which she finally allowed herself to bare, how was i suppose to react? imagine new york's lady statue of liberty proudly standing there for years, then one day you wake up to see she is stripped of all she was, left standing is only a piece of broken rubble? i can tell you how you would feel.

with all the years that passed between us, the struggles we went through together, the knowingness that we are there for each other and no matter how weak she has now become, how broken, you will love that person with a fierceness you never knew, a love that only God knows is best for her, not in my own way. you will allow grace from above and time to work itself in her, while you stand beside her, just being there for her, allowing herself to be herself. because you know, she will be back.