Held Steady in the Cereal Aisle
The fluorescent hum stops when you hear that voice. Three shelves away, the world narrows to a single aisle where your feet refuse to move.
You stand frozen, caught between the need to run and the impossibility of going forward. The light does not demand you walk right now.
It only asks that you breathe in this exact spot. There is a peace that does not depend on your ability to move, a presence that waits with you in the paralysis.
You are not abandoned in the freeze. The same light that walked through death is standing right here in the cereal aisle, holding you steady.
You do not have to face them to be held.
Drawing from
John, Luke
Verses
John 14:1
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