He Ran Before You Could Speak
The day is ending, and the inventory you take tonight feels heavy with failure. You slipped.
You went back to the thing you promised to leave behind, and now the shame is sitting right beside you in the dark. But listen — there was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, covered in the filth of his own choices.
He did not wait for the apology. He ran.
Before the speech, before the cleanup — he ran. The light does not require you to be perfect before it welcomes you.
It meets you exactly where you fell. Your relapse is not the end of your story; it is simply the place where the light finds you tonight.
The darkness has not overcome it.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 1:5
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