Held Because You Are Broken

The house is quiet now, and the weight you carry is the silence you chose. You pulled away from the ones you love because the guilt felt louder than their voices.

You thought hiding was the only way to protect them from the darkness inside you. But listen — the light does not demand your performance before it will stay.

There is a peace that waits for you to stop running, a mercy that finds you in the retreat. The true light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

You do not have to earn your way back to the table. The very act of staying awake, of enduring this crushing isolation, is proof that the light is still holding you together.

You are not too broken to be held; you are held because you are broken.