Even Through This?

Will you still Follow Me

    even through this?

Will you still Trust Me

    even through this?

Will you still Love Me

    even through this?

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It seemed to Much-Afraid 

  that she was actually looking 

    into abyss of horror, 

  into an existence in which 

    there was no Shepherd to follow 

      or to trust or to love — 

  no Shepherd at all, 

    nothing but her own horrible self. 

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Will you go down this 

  path of forgiveness 

    into the Valley of Loss, 

  just because it is the way 

    that I have chosen for you? 

Will you still trust and 

  still love me?”

                        - Hannah Hurnard

                 “Hind’s Feet on High Places”