Get Up, The Light Is Already Here
The afternoon stretches out, long and gray, and you are stuck in the middle of a problem you cannot solve. You have tried to fix it, to reason your way out, to force the pieces back together, but the paralysis holds you tight.
The world demands a solution, but the light does not work that way. There was a man beside a pool for thirty-eight years, waiting for the water to stir, waiting for a fix that never came.
Jesus walked straight to him, ignored the mechanism of healing, and simply asked: do you want to get well? He did not offer a strategy.
He did not explain the steps. He spoke a word that bypassed the effort entirely.
Get up. The paralysis breaks not when you figure it out, but when you realize the answer was never a puzzle for you to solve.
The light is not waiting for your plan. It is already inside you, ready to carry what you cannot lift.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
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