The Flaw You Search For Does Not Exist
The afternoon sun is unforgiving. It exposes every speck of dust, every crack in the wall, every flaw in the story you are telling yourself.
Right now, you are replaying the exact moment you asked for help. You are dissecting your own voice, hunting for the syllable that made you unlovable.
You believe if you can just find the error, you can fix the rejection. But the light does not scan your transcript for mistakes.
It does not audit your worthiness before it responds. There is a story of a man paralyzed for thirty-eight years, lying beside a pool of water, making excuses for why he cannot get in.
The light did not correct his story. It did not ask him to rehearse his request more perfectly.
It simply said: get up. The flaw you are searching for does not exist in the eyes of the one who sees you.
You are not being graded on the eloquence of your cry. You are being held in the middle of your stumble.
The afternoon is long, and the heat is heavy, but the love that finds you here requires no perfect pitch—only your presence.
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John, Luke
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