He Ran Before You Could Apologize
The day is ending, and the shadows are lengthening inside you. You are taking inventory of every wrong turn, convinced that your history has built a wall too high for love to climb.
But there is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — covered in the filth of his own choices — and he did not wait for an apology. He ran.
Before the speech, before the cleaning up, before the making right — he ran. The light does not require you to be flawless to be held.
It sees the whole story and calls you beloved anyway. Your past is real, but it is not the final word.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
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