Dust Used by Light to See
The afternoon sun is high, and the shadows are short, but the weight of your own freedom feels heavy enough to crush you. You stand at the center of the day, terrified that one wrong step, one mistaken turn, will prove you were never meant to be trusted with your own life.
The light does not demand perfection from your trembling hands. It only asks that you keep walking.
There was a man born blind, and the people around him argued for hours about who sinned to cause such darkness. The light ignored their debate about fault and simply made mud, opened the eyes, and sent him on his way.
Your past mistakes are not a verdict on your future. They are just the dust the light uses to see clearly again.
You do not have to prove you are worthy of the road. The road is already beneath your feet.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, Gospel of Thomas 24
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