Rest Before the Sun Sets
The afternoon sun is high, and the weight of the day presses down on your shoulders. You feel like your worth is tied to what you can produce before the sun sets.
But the light does not measure you by your output. It sees the exhaustion behind your eyes and calls you beloved anyway.
There is a rest that is not earned, a peace that exists in the middle of the unfinished work. You are not a machine designed to churn out value.
You are a child of the light, held simply because you exist. The world demands more, but the light whispers: enough.
Drawing from
Matthew, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Matthew 11:29-30
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