The Silence Where You Are Seen
The house is quiet, and the silence feels less like peace and more like proof that you are no longer needed. You put on the face the world expects, smiling at the coffee shop, answering emails, performing the role of someone who has it together.
But inside, there is a hollow ache where being counted on used to be. Yet the light does not measure your worth by your utility or your audience.
It sees the mask, and it loves the face beneath it with a tenderness that requires nothing from you. You were not made to be useful; you were made to be seen.
The silence is not an absence of love, but the space where you finally learn to hear it.
Drawing from
1 John 3:20, Luke 15:20
Verses
1 John 3:20, Luke 15:20
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