You Are the Light That Survived
The badge on your chest feels heavy this morning, a label that sticks while the rest of the world moves on. You walk into the room and everyone sees the record before they see the person.
But there is a voice that speaks a different name over you — one that is not written in any court file. The light does not define you by the moment you broke; it defines you by the mercy that held you through it.
You are not the mistake you made. You are the light that survived it.
Drawing from
John, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
John 8:36, John 15:15
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