Then and Now

Then:

It was winter. We had been hit by a huge ice storm just a few days before Andy left us. The trees for miles around had their limbs broken and frozen.

That was me. Broken and frozen.

Now:

It is summer. The trees have mended, the leaves are abundant. But, under the greenery there are scars in the bark, and new bark over the broken limbs. The scars are forever there, but amazingly they have made the trees stronger.

That is me. With scars...

yet stronger.