Say Your Name And Be Held
The house is quiet now, and the silence feels heavy enough to crush you. You hold your name behind your teeth, terrified that speaking it will make you vanish forever.
But the light does not need your silence to find you—it knows exactly where you are hiding. There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off.
He ran. Before the apology, before the speech—he ran.
Say your name. The voice that calls you does not erase you; it anchors you.
The terror says you will disappear, but the truth says you are being held.
Drawing from
Luke 15:20, Gospel of Mary 5:4-5
Verses
Luke 15:20
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