The Father Runs Before You Speak
The afternoon hums with the noise of things being done, of masks held firmly in place. You keep moving because you are afraid that if the performance stops, the silence will prove there is no one home inside.
But the light does not need your activity to exist — it is already there, waiting beneath the noise. There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, and before the apology or the speech, he ran.
He did not wait for the work to be finished. He did not require the performance to be perfect.
The silence is not empty. It is full of the one who has already made a home within you.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 14:23
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