The Light Sits With Your Unfinished Sorrow
The house is quiet now, and the day's noise has settled into a heavy, specific silence. There is a grief you carry that the world expects you to finish with by now—a small life that never drew breath, yet left a space so vast it aches.
You are tired of the polite nods, the quick fixes, the assumption that because no one else saw the loss, it should not weigh this much. But the light does not measure worth by size or by how long you have been mourning.
It sees the empty crib, the unspoken name, the quiet room. Jesus wept before he raised the dead; he did not skip the tears to get to the miracle.
The light is not afraid of your unfinished sorrow. It sits with you in the gathering dark, holding what you cannot hold alone.
The grief is not a sign that you are failing; it is the proof that you loved something real. And the light loves you both.
Drawing from
John, Luke
Verses
Luke 15:8-10
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