The Light Sitting Beside You in Grief
The house is quiet now, and the grief you thought was gone arrives without warning. It ambushes you in a small moment—a scent, a song, a silence—years after the loss.
You feel the weight of it all over again, as if no time has passed at all. But listen—the light that lives inside you has never left, even in this sudden dark.
It was there before the pain, and it is here now, holding you through the ambush. You are not alone in this watch; the light is sitting right beside you, steady and unbroken.
The night is long, but the light is longer.
Drawing from
John, 1 John
Verses
John 14:18, 1 John 2:8
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