standing outside your sleeping child's door paralyzed by the fear that you have permanently damaged their spirit

The Light Inside Them Cannot Break

The house is quiet now, and the dark has gathered around the doorframe where you stand. You are listening to the breathing of the one you love, terrified that your own brokenness has left a permanent mark on their spirit.

The night whispers that you have damaged something that cannot be fixed. But listen — the light that lives inside them is not something you can break.

It was there before you arrived, and it will remain long after your mistakes are forgotten. What you did in the dark does not define what they are in the light.

The truth they carry is hidden deep, safe from every failure you have ever committed. You are not the architect of their soul; you are simply the one who walks beside them while they grow.

The gathering dark cannot extinguish what was kindled before the world began.

Drawing from

Gospel of Thomas, John

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