For my dearest

There is a pain so savage that a piece of your heart falls into the abyss never to return.  An affliction so terrible because it is not your own, yet your faith falters. Whether this is a new disappointment that is raw or an old wound punctured and left to bleed does not matter.  What you could only hope for is to give pieces of yourself to help. And since you know you cannot mend the pain, you lay yourself at the feet of Jesus.  You beg Him on behalf of the one you love.  You make compromises and pleas for their ravaged heart.  There is a pain so fierce that while you lay crying for their broken heart, you know that there is nothing that can be done.  There is no sadness like the one you are blanketed by when your friend mourns a piece of herself.  You can do nothing but sit by and hope that she does not follow her hopes and dreams into that tear filled grave.

Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, for we have sworn friendship with each other in the name of the Lord, saying, ‘The Lord is witness between you and me, and between your descendants and my descendants forever. ’”

Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.