You Do Not Have to Break
The afternoon stretches out, long and flat, until the silence feels like abandonment. So you manufacture a crisis.
You poke the wound just to see who rushes to the bandage, then you hate yourself for needing the proof at all. But listen — the light does not wait for your emergency to prove it is present.
It is already here, steady and quiet, in the middle of this ordinary hour. You do not have to break yourself to be held.
The Father's love is not a reward for your pain; it is the ground you are standing on right now. You are not a test to be passed.
You are a child who is already known.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:4-6, John 10:27-28
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