Your Worth Exists Before You Work

The afternoon sun is high, and the work feels heavy. You are measuring your worth by how much you can carry for everyone else, terrified that if you stop being useful, you will stop being loved.

But the light does not need your exhaustion to validate your existence. There was a man born blind, and the people around him insisted his condition must be a punishment for someone's sin.

They needed his suffering to make sense, to fit their system of cause and effect. Jesus looked at him and said: neither this man nor his parents sinned.

He refused to let the man's value be defined by his utility or his fault. He saw a canvas for glory where others saw a broken tool.

Your worth is not a wage you earn by serving. It is a fact that exists before you lift a finger.

The light shines on you not because you are working, but because you are there.