Love Runs Before You Apologize
The house is quiet now, and the anger you feel toward the one who loves you feels like a wall you built yourself. You sit in the gathering dark, convinced that your bitterness has disqualified you from the very grace you need most.
But there was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, and before the apology, before the speech—he ran. The light does not wait for your heart to be soft before it meets you; it meets you in the hardness.
It stands at the door and knocks, not to demand entry, but to share a meal with the angry, the broken, the resistant. Your rage cannot outrun a love that arrived before you even knew you were lost.
Drawing from
Luke, Revelation
Verses
Luke 15:20, Revelation 3:20
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