The Light Does Not Scan For Flaws
The house is quiet now, and in this stillness, the voice inside you grows loud with the accusation that you are too broken to be held. You feel like a vessel cracked beyond repair, waiting for someone to finally see the damage and turn away.
But listen — the light does not scan you for flaws before it decides to stay. It entered the world not to judge the broken, but to dwell among them, making its home in the very places you try to hide.
The Father saw his child coming home from a long way off, still covered in the dust of failure, and he did not wait for an apology — he ran. The distance between your brokenness and being loved is not a gap you have to cross.
You are already held, exactly as you are, in the hands that formed you.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 1:14
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