You Are A Child To Be Held
The house is quiet now, and in that silence, the old lie returns: that your presence is a weight too heavy for the ones you love to carry. You lie awake counting your flaws like debts, convinced that if they truly saw the depth of your need, they would turn away.
But listen — there is a love that does not calculate cost, a mercy that does not keep score of what you owe. God is greater than your heart when it condemns you, seeing every hidden fear and choosing you anyway.
You are not a burden to be managed. You are a child to be held.
The light does not ask you to be lighter before it will stay. It stays because it lives in you.
Drawing from
1 John, Luke
Verses
1 John 3:20, Luke 12:7
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