The Strength That Keeps You From Being Held
The hand reaches out and your first instinct is to flinch. To pull back.
Because if you take it, the armor cracks. The lie that you are holding everything together finally breaks.
But listen — the strength you are guarding so fiercely is the very thing keeping you from being held. At this hour, when the world is quietest, the offer is not a judgment on your weakness.
It is an invitation to stop carrying what was never yours. You do not have to be the strong one anymore.
The light does not need your performance. It only needs your open hand.
Drawing from
Matthew 14:29-31, Thomas 24
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