The Light Runs Toward You
The day is ending, and the armor finally comes off. You catch yourself mid-sentence, editing your voice to sound less like home and more like them.
It is a quiet betrayal, practiced a thousand times to keep the peace. But the light does not need your performance.
It waits for the real you to arrive. There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — and he ran before the apology was even finished.
The light runs toward the unedited version of you. You do not have to smooth out the rough edges to be loved.
The place where you stumble over your own truth is exactly where the light meets you. Stop trying to be acceptable.
Start being real.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
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