Your Origin Is Not Your Output
The afternoon sun is high, and the work feels endless. You keep pushing because you are terrified that if you stop moving, the love you finally found will vanish.
As if your worth is a wage you must earn every single hour. But the light does not operate on a payroll.
It does not vanish when your hands are still. There is a story of a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years, spent everything on doctors, and only grew worse.
She did not earn her healing by working for it. She reached out from her exhaustion and touched the edge of a cloak.
And the voice that stopped the crowd did not ask for her resume. It called her 'Daughter.' Your origin is not your output.
You came from the light. You are a drop sent to illuminate, not a machine built to produce.
The love you fear losing was already yours before you did a single thing. Put the tool down.
The love remains.
Drawing from
Mark 5:34, Gospel of Thomas 50, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
Verses
Mark 5:34, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8
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