The Light Runs Before You Speak
The afternoon stretches out, a long middle where the words you need to say sit heavy in your throat. You are rehearsing an apology you are too afraid to deliver, playing out the scene until the fear feels like a wall.
But the light does not wait for your perfect speech or your courageous moment. It is already in the room, humming beneath the noise of your worry.
There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off. He ran.
Before the apology, before the speech — he ran. The light runs toward you while you are still rehearsing.
You do not have to get the words right to be held. The fear is real, but the love is closer.
The door opens before you even knock.
Drawing from
Luke, Matthew
Verses
Luke 15:20, Matthew 7:8
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