The Father Runs Before You Speak
The house is quiet, but your mind is loud with the inventory of what you didn't do today. You are lying here convinced that the window has closed, that the hour is too late to turn the ship around.
But look at the father in the old story — he saw his son coming home from a long way off, while the boy was still covered in the filth of the pig pen. He did not wait for the speech.
He ran. The light does not check the clock before it moves toward you.
It has never left your side, not even in this silence. You are not a project to be finished by morning; you are a child who is already held.
The fear says it is too late. The truth says the door is still open.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 3:20
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