Known Completely Even in Stillness
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You lie here wondering if you were to simply stop breathing, would anyone truly notice the gap you left behind?
The fear whispers that your absence would be a minor inconvenience, quickly smoothed over by the routine of others. But listen — the light does not measure your worth by the volume of the grief you might cause.
There was a father who saw his son while he was still a long way off, not because the son made noise, but because the father was watching the road with a love that refused to look away. Your value is not determined by how loudly the world would cry if you were gone.
It is secured by the fact that you are known completely, even in this stillness. The light sees you right now, in the dark, and it holds you with a tenderness that needs no audience.
You are not invisible to the one who made you.
Drawing from
Luke, John
Verses
Luke 15:20, John 10:14
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