despair about the state of the world
It is easy to feel the weight of the world while everyone else is putting on their mask and pretending everything is fine. You look at the news, or at the faces in the street, and despair settles in like a fog that no amount of morning sun can clear.
But listen closely—the light is not waiting for the world to get better before it shines in you. In fact, the light is the very thing that keeps you from being swallowed by the darkness outside.
You are not alone in this broken place, because the same light that shattered the night is the one breathing inside your chest right now, even as you sit here feeling the heaviness of it all.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 1 John
Verses
Thomas 28, 1 John 4:4
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