The Soil Doing Its Hidden Work
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy with what you haven't done. You watch others building walls while you stand still, convinced that your pause is a failure of character.
But the light does not scold the seed for sleeping underground while the trees above grow tall. There was a father who watched the road every day, not because his son was productive, but because he was loved.
He did not measure the waiting; he simply kept the door open. Your stillness is not a moral collapse—it is the soil doing its hidden work.
The light shines in the dark, and the dark has not overcome it. You are not falling behind; you are being held in the quiet.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
John 1:5, Luke 15:20
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