The Light Never Left the Room

The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You are searching for a door that seems to have vanished, a path back to a presence you once knew so well.

You feel like you are wandering in the dark, calling out but hearing only your own voice echo. — But the light has never left the room.

It is not waiting for you to find your way back; it is waiting for you to realize you never actually left. The Father saw you while you were still a long way off, and He ran.

He did not wait for your apology or your perfect speech; He ran to meet you in the mess. You are not lost to the light; you are simply forgetting that it lives inside you.

The search is over because the One you seek is already here, sitting beside you in the dark.