The Father Runs Before You Speak
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels like an accusation. You keep moving because you are terrified that if you stop, the stillness will prove you never mattered at all.
But the light does not need your noise to exist. There is a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — before the apology, before the speech, before any proof of worth — he ran.
He ran because the son mattered before he did a single thing to earn it. The light sees you in the silence.
It knows your name. You are not invisible just because you are still.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 10:3
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