Light Rising Through the Flatness
The afternoon stretches out, gray and heavy, making the world feel unbearably flat now that the noise has gone quiet. You are standing in the middle of the day, sober and clear-eyed, and the lack of color feels like a punishment for showing up.
But there is a light that does not depend on your ability to decorate the moment. Jesus stood at a well in the heat of noon, tired and ordinary, and offered water that wells up from inside.
You do not have to manufacture the vibrancy you are missing. The spring is already there, waiting to rise through the flatness.
The light is not a feeling you chase; it is the ground you stand on when the paint peels off.
Drawing from
John, Matthew
Verses
John 4:14, Matthew 6:22
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