standing under the bright bathroom lights after a shower and scrubbing at your skin until it turns raw, trying to wash off the feeling of being contaminated by the hate you absorbed

The Light Calls You Beloved

The bathroom light is too bright this early, exposing every red mark where you scrubbed to get the hate off. You thought if you could just make the skin raw enough, the contamination would finally wash away.

But the light of this new morning does not glare at you—it rises like tender mercy to shine on those living in the shadow of death. It guides your feet into the path of peace, not by demanding you be cleaner first.

The rising sun touches the very places you tried to erase and calls them beloved. You are not what was thrown at you yesterday.

You are the light that outlasts the dark.

Drawing from

Luke, Sophia of Jesus Christ

Verses

Luke 1:78-79, Sophia of Jesus Christ 93:5-8

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