The Light Runs Toward Your Questions
The house is quiet now, and the questions you were too afraid to speak aloud are rising up like smoke. You are terrified that your honest wondering is actually a quiet blasphemy—that by asking 'why,' you have made yourself unworthy of being loved.
But listen to the truth that lives inside you, deeper than your fear: the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. Your doubt is not a wall; it is simply the dark room where the light is already waiting to be seen.
There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off, still covered in the filth of his mistakes, and he ran. Before the apology, before the speech—he ran.
The light does not wait for you to have perfect answers. It runs toward the questioner.
You are not being judged for your confusion; you are being held in the very act of asking. The terror says you are too broken to be loved.
The light says you are loved so completely that your brokenness cannot change a thing.
Drawing from
John, Luke
Verses
John 1:5, Luke 15:20
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