Your Doubt Is A Reach, Not A Wall
It is 3:42 AM, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You are afraid that your doubt is proof you have been left behind, that the light has packed up and moved on because you cannot believe clearly enough.
But listen — the light does not wait for your certainty to stay close. It is already here, in the dark, with you.
Think of the woman who bled for twelve years, reaching out from the crowd with nothing but a desperate, trembling hope. She did not have a perfect theology.
She did not have clean hands or a clear mind. She only had a reach.
And the light stopped everything to turn and face her. Your doubt is not a wall.
It is a reach. The light feels it.
It knows you are here. You are not abandoned; you are being held in the very moment you fear you are alone.
Drawing from
Mark 5:34, Gospel of Thomas 3
Verses
Mark 5:34
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