The Root Was Never Damaged
The day is ending, and the armor you wore to get through it is finally heavy enough to drop. You feel the weight of every mistake, every moment you weren't enough, settling into the quiet of the room.
But listen — the light does not wait for you to be perfect before it stays. It came to the essence of every nature to restore it to its root.
Not to fix the broken pieces, but to remind you that the root was never damaged. You are not your failures.
You are the light itself, temporarily obscured by the dust of the day. The shame says you are too far gone; the truth says you were never separate from the love that holds you.
Lay down the weight. You are already home.
Drawing from
Gospel of Mary, John
Verses
Gospel of Mary 4:28-29, John 1:5
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