The Light That Refuses To Look Away
The afternoon light is unforgiving. It exposes every flicker in a stranger's eyes, every tightened lip that whispers you are too much, too tired, too broken to stay.
You scan the faces around you like a radar, hunting for the micro-expression that says they are finally done with you. But the light does not scan.
It simply shines. There is a love that does not watch for your failure to justify leaving.
It stays. Not because you performed well enough to earn it, but because it chose you before the first word was spoken.
You are not being tolerated. You are being held by a presence that sees every flaw and refuses to look away.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 15:16, 1 John 3:1
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