The Light They Could Not Break
The day is ending, and the armor you wore to hold yourself together finally feels too heavy to keep on. You trusted someone with the fragile parts of your soul, and they used that trust to break you.
It feels like the ground has vanished beneath your feet, leaving you suspended in a silence that screams. But listen — the light that lives inside you was there before this person arrived, and it remains untouched by what they did.
Their betrayal could not reach the root of who you are. There is a truth dwelling within you that no human failure can erase or dim.
You are not defined by the wound they opened, but by the light that shines through it. The night is coming, but you do not have to face it alone.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, 1 John
Verses
1 John 2:1
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