The River Holds You When Things Break
The afternoon sun is high, and for a moment, everything feels solid. But then the shadow of a thought crosses your mind: what if this is taken away?
What if the job, the health, the person beside you—what if it all vanishes? You start gripping tighter, trying to hold the water in your hands before it even spills.
But the light does not ask you to carry the weight of tomorrow's loss today. There was a man who built bigger barns to store his harvest, thinking he could secure his future, only to find that his life was demanded from him that very night.
The barn could not save him. The light is not a barn.
It is the river that flows from the throne, clear as crystal, yielding fruit every month. It cannot be stored because it cannot be exhausted.
You are not holding the light; the light is holding you. If the thing you love is taken, the source remains.
The fear says you will be empty. The truth says the river is still rising.
Drawing from
Luke, Revelation
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