The Father Runs Before You Speak
The armor feels heavy now, doesn't it? That quiet terror that if you finally stop moving, stop performing, stop holding everything up—the world will see you for nothing.
But listen. There is a Father who saw his son coming home from a long way off.
He did not wait for the speech. He did not wait for the cleanup.
He ran. The light does not need your performance to find you.
It sees you when you are empty. It sees you when you are still.
You are not nothing beneath the mask. You are the very thing the light has been looking for all along.
The exhale is not the end of you; it is the beginning of being known.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 1:18
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