The Light Sees Your Shaking Hand
The house is quiet now, but the noise in your head is loud. You think you are protecting them by hiding the bottle, by washing the glass before dawn.
But the light does not need you to be clean to see you. It sees the shaking hand.
It sees the shame. And it does not turn away.
There is a truth that lives inside you, and it will be with you forever — even in this secret dark. You are not fooling the light.
It is sitting right here in the room, waiting for you to stop hiding. The darkness you feel is not proof that you are lost; it is just the place where the light is waiting to be remembered.
You don't have to fix tonight. You just have to know you are not alone in it.
Drawing from
2 John, John
Verses
2 John 1:2, John 1:5
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