Love Finds You in the Raw Footage
The afternoon light is unforgiving. It shows the dust on the shelf and the fatigue in your eyes.
You are terrified that if someone saw the raw footage of your life—the unedited takes where you stumble and cry—they would finally stop pretending to love you. So you keep performing.
You smile at the desk while breaking inside. But there is a love that does not need the highlight reel.
It has already seen the bloopers, the deleted scenes, the moments you tried to bury. And it stayed.
The light does not love the performance. It loves the person behind the mask.
You do not have to edit yourself to be held. The raw footage is exactly where the love finds you.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, John 21:15-17
Verses
1 John 3:20
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