the terror that if you stop performing your perfection, you will be abandoned

The Embrace Comes Before The Apology

The day is done, and the mask you wore to keep everyone close feels heavy now. You are terrified that if you stop performing, if you let the perfection slip, the room will empty and you will be left alone in the dark.

But listen — the light does not love the performance. It loves the person underneath it.

There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, still covered in the filth of his failure, and he ran before the apology was even spoken. The embrace came first.

The light is not waiting for you to be flawless. It is waiting for you to be real.

You are not held because you are perfect; you are perfect because you are held.

Drawing from

Luke, 1 John

Verses

Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20

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