You Are the Coin Waiting to Be Found
The afternoon stretches out, long and quiet, filled with the hum of a life that no longer fits the shape you promised yourself. You swore this would last forever, and now you are walking through the middle of a day that feels like a mistake.
But the light does not care about your broken vows or the timeline you lost. It is here, in this mundane hour, holding the pieces without judgment.
There was a woman who lost a single coin in the dust of her house, and she did not scold the coin for being lost. She lit a lamp.
She swept the floor. She searched until she found it, and when she did, she called everyone to rejoice.
You are that coin. Not discarded.
Not forgotten. Just waiting to be found in the sweep of ordinary time.
The kingdom grows like a seed in the soil, night and day, whether you sleep or wake, and you do not have to force it to sprout. The light is working in the middle of this mess, turning the wreckage into something new.
You are not starting from zero; you are starting from the light that never left.
Drawing from
Luke, Mark
Verses
Luke 15:8-10
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