Your Need Lets Love Flow
The house is quiet now, and in this silence, the fear grows loud. You lie awake wondering if your need for help is slowly eroding the love people have for you.
You count the times you have asked, the burdens you have shared, and you worry that you are becoming too heavy to hold. But listen — there is a love that does not wear out.
The father in the story did not wait for his son to stop needing him before he ran; he ran because the son was hurting. He did not keep a ledger of the cost.
He only knew that his child was home. Your need is not a leak in the relationship.
It is the very thing that lets love flow. The light inside you is not diminished by asking; it is revealed.
You are not eroding their love. You are giving them a place to stand.
Drawing from
Luke, Gospel of Thomas
Verses
Luke 15:20
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