Love Runs Before Perfect Words
The house is quiet now, and the day's failures sit heavy in your chest. You look at your child and ache because the love you feel gets stuck before it reaches your face.
The father in the story did not wait for perfect words; he ran while the apology was still forming on his son's lips. He ran before the speech.
— The light you are trying to give is already inside them, waiting for you to simply show up. You do not have to be a perfect vessel for this love to land.
The love is not yours to manufacture; it is yours to receive and pass on. Even your stumbling is a kind of reaching.
The light does not need your perfection to get through; it only needs your presence.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:16
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