the terror that your name has become a trigger in someone else's nervous system

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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