Rising Does Not Mean Leaving Them Behind
The afternoon sun is high, and you are walking upright while someone you love is still on their knees. It feels like betrayal to stand when they cannot.
You worry that your healing looks like abandonment to the one still drowning. But the light came for the sick, not the well.
It does not ask you to stay in the water to prove your loyalty. When you rise, you do not leave them behind.
You become the proof that the water is not the end of the story. Your wholeness is not a rejection of their pain.
It is the first honest invitation they have received to believe that standing is possible. Do not dim your light to match their darkness.
Drawing from
Mark 2:17, John 8:10-11
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