You Were Sent to Illuminate

The day has started, and you are already performing okayness for the people around you. You smile at the coffee shop.

You nod in the meeting. You carry a silent calculation in your chest: if I ask for what I need, will I be too much?

Will my hunger inconvenience someone else? So you swallow the request.

You decide your needs are not worth the trouble. But there is a Father who sees behind the mask you wear so well.

He does not measure your worth by how little space you take up. He runs to meet you before you even finish your apology.

The light inside you is not a burden to the world — it is the very thing the world is waiting for. You were sent here not to shrink, but to illuminate.