Mud From The Dust Of Regret
The afternoon sun is unforgiving, exposing the dust motes of a moment you cannot stop replaying. You walked away when you should have stayed.
You turned your back when the work of repair was right in front of you. Now the silence of the room feels like an accusation, echoing the sound of your own retreating footsteps.
But the light does not demand that you rewrite the past; it only asks that you see the present clearly. There was a man born blind, and the people around him wanted to know whose fault it was—his or his parents'.
The light refused to play that game. It said the blindness was not a punishment for walking away, but a canvas for what could be done right now.
You are not defined by the moment you fled. You are defined by the one who stands beside you in the wreckage, ready to make mud from the dust of your regret and say: go, wash, and see.
The thing you broke is not beyond repair; it is the very place where the light is about to shine.
Drawing from
John 9:1-7, John 9:5
Verses
John 9:5
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