The Light Does Not Need Your Empty Chair
The fork hovers over the last bite, the one you still set aside out of habit. The chair across from you is empty, and the silence in the room feels heavy enough to crush the air out of your lungs.
You are saving a place at a table where no one is coming home. But listen — the light does not require your empty chair to be full.
It does not need your uneaten food to prove your love. Go home to your own heart and tell it what you have seen tonight: that you are still here, and you are still loved.
The grief is real. But so is the hand reaching for yours in the dark.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, 1 John 3:19-20
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