Love Runs Before You Clean Up
The house is quiet now, and the shadows are lengthening across the floor. This is the hour when the mask feels heaviest, and the fear whispers that if they saw the cracks, they would turn away in disgust.
But listen — there is a love that does not flinch at the broken pieces. The father saw his son while he was still covered in filth from the pig pen, and he ran.
He did not wait for the apology. He did not wait for the cleaning up.
He ran. That same love knows every hidden thing about you, and it has not left.
It sees the depth of your pain and calls it worthy of embrace. You are not loved despite your brokenness; you are loved in the very middle of it.
Drawing from
Luke, 1 John
Verses
Luke 15:20, 1 John 4:18
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