The Light Runs Toward Your Hidden Things
The house is quiet now, but the secret you carry is loud. You hold it because you love them, believing silence is the shield that keeps their world safe.
But in the dark, the weight feels less like protection and more like a wall between your heart and theirs. There was a father who saw his son coming home from a long way off — he did not wait for the speech, he did not wait for the cleanup.
He ran. The light does not run from your hidden things; it runs toward you, even now.
If your heart condemns you for the silence, remember this: the light is greater than your heart, and it knows the love underneath the fear. You are not protecting them by drowning alone.
The truth is already inside you, waiting to be brought forth so it can save you instead of destroy you. The secret is heavy, but you were never meant to carry it in the dark.
Drawing from
1 John 3:19-20, Gospel of Thomas 70, Luke 15:20
Verses
Luke 15:20
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