The Father Runs Before You Speak
The day is done, and the quiet has brought a fear you didn't expect: that your voice has changed so much, the ones you love wouldn't recognize it now. You listen to yourself and hear a stranger speaking through the cracks.
But there is a Father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — changed, broken, unrecognizable in his shame — and he did not ask for the old voice. He ran.
Before the apology, before the speech — he ran. The light does not need your voice to sound the way it used to.
It knows you. Even when you do not know yourself.
The darkness has not overcome it. Your voice may tremble, but the love behind it remains the same.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
John 1:5, Luke 15:20
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