Your Name Is Not A Trigger To God
The house is quiet, but your mind is loud with the fear that your name has become a weapon in someone else's life. You lie awake wondering if the sound of you now triggers a flinch, a freeze, a flight response in the one you loved.
The watch feels heavy when you believe you are the danger. But listen — the light that lives inside you was there before the wound, and it remains after.
It cannot be broken by a reaction, nor lost to a memory. There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off.
He did not wait for the apology to finish. He ran.
Before the speech, before the explanation — he ran. The light does not flinch from your name.
It speaks it to call you closer. Your name is not a trigger to the divine; it is the secret sound the light uses to find you in the dark.
Drawing from
Luke, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Luke 15:20
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