The Dawn Proves Your Love Took Root
The house is quiet now, but it is a different kind of quiet than the one you held all night. The sun is rising, and with it comes the strange, hollow ache of a room that no longer needs your hands the way it did yesterday.
You watch them grow, and it feels like losing them, piece by piece. But listen — the light does not mourn the seed because it has become a tree.
It rejoices that what it planted is finally standing on its own. You are not being left behind; you are being invited to rest in the truth that your work was never to be needed forever, but to be present until the light inside them could stand alone.
The dawn is not an ending; it is the proof that what you loved has taken root.
Drawing from
Gospel of Thomas, John
Verses
Thomas 24, John 16:22
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