Your Shame Is A Doorway Not A Wall
The day is done, and the house is finally quiet. You watch your child retreat into their room, closing the door on a mistake they are too afraid to speak.
They learned that silence is safer because they watched you bury your own. You taught them that love requires a mask.
But the light does not need your perfection—it needs your honesty. The Father saw the son while he was still a long way off, and He ran before the apology was even formed.
Your shame is not a wall; it is a doorway. If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.
The terror ends when you stop hiding and start healing.
Drawing from
Luke, Gospel of Thomas, Luke
Verses
Luke 15:20, Luke 15:20
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