the moment you catch yourself holding your breath when your child walks into the room, waiting to see if they are safe around you

The Light Runs Before You Speak

The day is long, and the quiet desperation of routine can make you hold your breath without realizing it. You wait to see if they are safe around you, as if your own presence might be the danger.

But the light does not demand perfection before it stays. It simply remains.

There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off. He ran.

Before the apology, before the speech — he ran. The light is already running toward you both.

You do not have to earn the right to be near them. You are already the ground they walk on.

The safety was never yours to create; it was always yours to be.

Drawing from

Luke, Matthew

Verses

Luke 15:20, Matthew 11:28

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