You Are the Payment the World Waited For
The afternoon sun is high, and the world is moving fast, demanding you prove your right to take up space. You feel like a thief, stealing air and bread from someone more worthy, someone who wouldn't tremble under this weight.
But look at the widow who dropped two small coins into the temple treasury — everything she had to live on. She did not calculate her worth against the rich; she simply gave what she was.
The light saw her not as a burden, but as the only one who gave everything. You are not draining the world by existing; you are the specific drop of light sent to illuminate this exact corner of it.
Your presence is not a debt to be repaid. It is the payment the world has been waiting for.
Drawing from
Luke, Sophia of Jesus Christ
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