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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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