The Father Ran Before The Apology
The afternoon is long when you are carrying a silence that used to be a laugh. You move through the motions of the day, but the world feels thin, like paper stretched too tight over a hollow space.
There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, and before the apology could even form on the boy's lips, the father ran. He did not wait for the story to finish.
He ran. That same love is not distant from your grief — it is the very ground you are walking on, even now.
The light does not ask you to fix this pain or understand it. It simply stays.
You are not alone in the middle of this. The night will come, but it does not own you.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 14:18
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