The Permission Was Yours All Along
The house is quiet now, but the noise in your head is loud with the years you spent waiting for someone to tell you it was okay to be here. You held your breath, thinking permission was a gift someone else had to hand you.
But look at how long you have carried this weight alone. The light did not wait for an invitation to enter your lungs.
It was already there, breathing with you before you knew its name. In the silence of this watch, the truth lands soft and heavy: you do not need to ask.
Go home to your own life and tell everyone what the light has done for you. The permission was yours all along.
Drawing from
Mark 5:19, Luke 7:47
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