standing in the hallway staring at the closed door of the room where your child is sleeping, terrified that if you open it, you will wake them and shatter the only peace they have found today

You Are the Dawn Not the Disturbance

The hallway is quiet, and the door is closed, and you are standing here holding your breath because you are afraid to break the peace inside that room. You think your presence is a risk.

That if you turn the knob, the silence will shatter and the day will begin again with all its weight. But listen — the light does not wait for permission to enter the places where peace is sleeping.

It rises without asking the night if it is ready. The sun comes up whether the world is prepared or not.

It simply arrives, gentle and inevitable, and the darkness has not overcome it. You are not the disturbance.

You are the dawn. Open the door.

The peace inside is stronger than the noise you fear you might make.

Drawing from

John, Luke

Verses

John 1:5, Luke 1:78-79

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