Light Sitting in Your Regret
The afternoon stretches out, long and gray, while you replay that split second—the exact micro-expression in their eyes when the lie landed. You are still wearing the mask, performing okayness while the memory burns holes in your chest.
But notice how the light does not demand you fix the past before it stays with you. It sits right here in the middle of your regret, unbothered by your failure.
There is no sin that can overwrite the root of who you are. The light sees the shame and calls it what it is: a moment, not an identity.
You are not defined by the look you received, but by the love that holds you now.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, 1 John
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:25-26, 1 John 3:20
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