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What Will This Trial Make of Me?

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You have to admit –

it’s overwhelming –

this task you are asking of me.

The burden is great –

all on my shoulders –

the outcome I can’t clearly see.

This has the power –

to break my faith –

and make my beating heart turn tough.

Or the opposite –

will happen inside –

and this will make my heart buff.

This is a hard test –

a sure dilemma –

what will this trial make of me?

Will I be better?

Or will I break apart?

My response defines who I will be.

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Tough Enough

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Life is messy, life gets hard

sometimes you don’t want to press on.

How will you ever make it

when you don’t feel strong?

Here are a few words

of encouragement for you

because you do have what it takes

to help you make it through.

Because she’s a part of you –

tough enough to raise her children all alone.

She’s a part of you –

tough enough to leave and set out on her own.

She’s a part of you –

tough enough to give birth while rain flooded the Green.

She’s a part of you –

tough enough to start her family at seventeen.

So you see – you will succeed.

Look behind you –

They are walking with you.

Reach inside you –

they are a part of you.

Heartache will come your way

but you will make it through the day –

because you’re already tough enough.